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INTRODUCTION. 

That the world of to-day is in a chaotic condition, no one will 
deny. 

The writer of “The Modern World” whom we wish to introduce 
to the readers of these pages has seen and felt the whirl of cir¬ 
cumstances which tend to make the world what it is to-day,—he has 
looked about and found the world seeking for redeemers and ex¬ 
plains in this light the power of fraternal, social and political or¬ 
ganizations. 


He notices in all these efforts to locate a redeemer the tendency 
to be redeemed without the work of the only God-given Redeemer,— 
and he realizes that without God and His Christ, this world shall 
never be what the inhabitants of the world wish it to be. 

The writer does not lay any claim to scientific mastery of the 
ills of the times,—his is not a professional work, but his plain 
Christian view has been expressed: a layman speaking to laymen, 
is what this book purports to be. And to his brethren in the same 
faith and belief, he says: “Let us glorify Christ in this life as long as 
the opportunity is with us. Let us wait for his coming. Let us 
look for His coming, for He cometh soon! Let us wait for Him and 
say: Christ Jesus, Come, come quickly.” 

May the publication of this book be a means in the hand of God 
to awaken within the hearts of the readers a realization of the 
dangers that beset them on all sides,—may it be a blessing to many 
and help us to live more in accord with the calling with which we 
are called,—even tho we might not be in strict accord with every¬ 
thing the writer has said. 

Rochester, N. Y., February 1923 


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PREFACE. 


The following pages contain a plain exposition of the view the 
writer has upon “The Modern World.” The writer is not hampered 
by a much desired and highly valued education.—Although believing 
education a high priced asset, yet he feels that such an asset is very 
liable and apt to obscure a plain view, or discolor the view after 
critical examination. 

In writing on such a broad topic as “The Modern World” the 
fact stands out clearly that—an unobstructed view is of much more 
importance than “a mere education,” still it must be readily admitted 
that “a clear view” alone, without any education (self-instructed or 
pedantic) could not bring forth good results either, for education 
must be the instrument of bringing the view before the attention of 
others. 

The writer deems it prudent to make the above remarks, re¬ 
membering that EDUCATION is a “BOAZ” of the Modern World. 

Since writing the manuscript of this book nearly two years 
passed before it landed in the hands of the publisher. This will be 
clear to the casual observer, who, perhaps will reflect upon the 
strange absence of latter days affairs and happenings in the religious 
and political worlds which have set the world agog. For instance, 
nothing or very little has been said about the so much discussed 
Washington Peace Parley. To fill in, let me state here that the much 
talked of Federated Churches of Christ in America, at that time 
declared it a gracious act, thanking God for it and for the con¬ 
templated destruction of America’s warships, while at the end of the 
very same year these churches blamed Uncle Sam for not sending 
the WAR SHI'PS to the Dardenelles to chastise the Turks for the 
burning of Smyrna by the fleeing Greek army. As the lapse of one 
year proves, this so-called “Peace Parley” was in fact nothing but a 
secret unamerican attempt to unite America, in spite of herself, with 
the War Lords of Europe, to accomplish the secret wishes of the 
uncontrollable forces of the unrighteous God Mammon. 



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As the reader beholds by reading the observations of the writer, 
he. or she, will realize that the writer depicts not alone the world, as 
he sees it, but that he also describes the church as she appears to 
him. The reasons are deductable from the fact that the Modern 
World could not possibly be what it is if it was not true that the 
Church, as the mother of wisdom, had carried the world to the 
pinnacle of its lustrous passing glory. That the writer speaks more 
explicitly about a particular church denomination illustrates his iden¬ 
tification with it, and proves to the doubters the truth of his asser¬ 
tions, assuring them as well as others that he laments and bewails 
the conditions of said and of other denominations, of which he knows 
that they also are upon the broad pathway of apostacy. 

The reader by persuing these pages shall find that the writer did 
not lay down his pen when he depicted the ultimate and consequent 
culmination of this most wondrous Modern World with its golden 
glitter so ignominious sinking in selfwrought and selfsought utter 
ruin. Assuredly be himself would be a picture of gloom and utter 
hopelesness if he was not able to gladden the hearts of men by un¬ 
folding a more truer and more glorious sight. Yes, and it is with 
holy rapture mingled with unutterable joy that his closing chapter 
refers to The Holy City of God, The New Jerusalem, such as was 
given the apostle John to behold, superseding the Modern World. 

That the Christ who came to redeem sinners may grant the 
reader the so much needed light to flee the many temptations of the 
conspicuous Modern World and seek with Abraham the heavenly 
city, whose master builder is God, and that the plain words spoken in 
these pages may help to that effect is the wish and prayer of the 
writer. 


Chicago, Ill., February 1923 


J. H. Hoekstra. 




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CONTENTS: 

Chapter I. The Modern World Page 9 

II. A Dog ma - ess World “ 13 

III. A World filled with Incomprehensible Ideas “ 20 

IV. A Very Materialistic World. “ 24 

V. A Very Pious World. “ 29 

VI. The Sleeping Church. “ 34 

VII. A Very Learned World. “ 49 

VIII. A World with a Dual God. “ 56 

IX. The World ruled by God Mammon. • 58 

X. The World to-day in Political and Social Chaos 63 

XI. The World, to -morrow, ruled by Bolsheviki. 74 

XII. The World Seeking a Redeemer “ 81 

XIII. Many Redeemers “ 84 

XIV. The Most Promising Redeemer,Secret Societies 95 

XV. The Anti-Christ. 103 

XVI. Persecution. " 116 

“ XVII. The Yellow Danger. “ 119 

XVIII. The Stone cut out without Hands. “ 124 

XIX. The New Jerusalem. “ 129 






















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CHAPTER ONE. 

The Modern World. 

To give a more or less accurate description of the Modern 
W orld, and impart a fair idea of its origin, its existance, its ten¬ 
dencies, its glowing aspect, its demeanor, and its intentions, the 
writer has tried to bring to the intelligence of the reader. In how far 
he has succeeded, the reader will judge, although kind consideration 
is asked for the fact that the topic is a very broad one, looked upon 
from the various different angles, and especially one thing should 
never be lost sight of, the fact that the writer was guided by plain 
bible-truth. 

To grasp the importance of the glittering modern world it will 
be necessary to find the cause that directed it to its present high 
estate. 

This statement is effective of granting a period of a lesser 
magnitude, or rather; of a degree considered not so exalted as the 
level at which we find it. 

Estimating this to be so; it behooves us to reason out why the 
modern world is so much different than preceding worlds. 

The main cause that guided the modern world to its almost 
incomprehensible glory is civilization. Civilization, as the word 
implies, signifies illumination, comprehension and understanding. 
These in connection and in combination with intelligence bring 
forth culture, refinement and the power of using the gathered knowl¬ 
edge. 

Satisfied to have found the right definition of the word “civiliza¬ 
tion,” the question is not unreasonable: “what is this particular 
knowledge ?” 

An Atheist may not believe in God, still he cannot deny the fact 
that this “particular knowledge,” is the knowledge of the True God. 
The God Who created the world and upholds it to the glory of His 
Name. 

Granting the knowledge of God to be the foundation of civiliza¬ 
tion, may not a contender reasonably ask: Were not.the Grecians 
even more civilized than the present modern world, although they 
never heard of a God? 

A person asking such should remember. First: the civilization 
of the Grecians was a heathen civilization consisting of heathen 
philosophy centering in religion, and surely of a higher order than of 
other heathen nations. Their religious civilization delighted in erect¬ 
ing beautiful temples bountifully supplied with fancy images. Sec- 





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ondly (and perhaps even more accurately) they had saved a more 
pure understanding - of the true God, So we find that even bv the 
heathen Greeks “the knowledge of the true God” was base and 
foundation upon which they had reared their polytheistic worship, 
and their consequent architecture, and their civilization in general. 
Again, some one might inquire, How is it that the children of Israel 
did not attain to such an outward glory of civilization, although they 
understood the God of heaven and earth better than any other people, 
the Grecians included? We may answer that Israel was consecrated 
by God to show forth His spiritual majesty and glory more than 
God’s greatness in materialism, and had Israel been true, no doubt 
her outward civilization would have overshadowed the vain glory of 
the Greeks, being immensely more real and more perfect, and the 
difference between civilization and civilization would have been a 
topic of much discussion even to-day. 

A glance in the history of the ages convinces us that a more or 
less clear conception of the true living God is the foundation of 
civilization. Accepting this as an undeniable principle, shall we now 
believe and maintain that modern civilization in all of its various 
phrases and pretentions is indeed the very thing desired by God ? 

For the present we shall not answer this question, as it is bound 
to appear in our further deliberation, but let us grant that civilization 
is a consequence of a more or less true conception of God, as is 
shown above, for surely, Christ Jesus who is the essence of civiliza¬ 
tion has laid in the gospel the power which was instrumental to turn 
the whole of the heathen world into the world of civilized Chris¬ 
tianity as it is today, even the so-called “dark ages” being witness 
that it was after all the gospel which guided the world on toward its 
course to lofty mountains of glory. The more the pure gospel was 
preached, the more light broke forth, and when the wonderful 
reformation had illuminated the world, the brightness of the light 
shone abundantly in the consequent civilization, which after that 
date took hold of all peoples, the one partaking more of the spreading 
lustre than the other. 

Thus far we stood still by the cause of civilization which we con¬ 
sider responsible for “The Modern World.” We shall now scrutinize 
more particularly this very modern world. 

The “Index" places us before seventeen different viewpoints 
from which we shall behold this wondrous modern world, although 
the idea itself, as understood in the phrase—is worthy to be depicted 
in a simplified account by itself. 

What Is The Modern World? 

From what has been said it is plain that neither the Jewish nor 
the Grecian nation nor other peoples of the past ages are considered 
to be “the modern world,” and thereby the fact is established that 
the “modern world” is the world of to-day. And, what a world, 
what a world! Imagine the unheard of, fabulous, immense, colossal 






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and incomprehensible fortunes and treasures heaped up and gathered 
together into the possession of a few shrewd men. 

Behold the vast kingdoms of the world scraping the bloom of 
men, the flower of wealth, the golden dew of the earth, the glory and 
power of the air together, firing it in behalf of the so much coveted 
greatness and stability of mankind. 

Let your eyes wander over the great magnificent waters, con¬ 
template upon the wondrous ships, the leviathans of the oceans, that 
plow through the tumultuous billows binding country upon country. 
Marvel at the monstrous sea-castles intended to string the entire 
earth, the countries and the isles thereof, as so many pearls into one 
necklace hanging it upon the breast of the great, the wonderful, the 
coming powerful human being. Glance at those majestic sea-castles, 
glare and stare at the inhuman seamonsters dwelling at the roots of 
the mountains planted in the waters, unexpectedly and unobservedly 
opening their brazen mouths bulging forth hell and murder, splitting 
the leviathans, destroying them, their puny occupants and their un¬ 
real glory. Look at the so unseemly and yet so magnificent airships. 
How wonderful! Behold them gliding through the air, wandering 
through the heavens, losing themselves in the ether, trying to break 
through the “appealing'’ embracing our abode. See them hovering 
as giant birds over city, river and hamlet, shining in the lustrous 
light of a summer sun. O how glorious, and yet. and yet how dread¬ 
ful! No protection from them, no protection from these wonderful 
foes of mankind, more valuable as “life destroyers,” than as sus¬ 
tained of this precious gift of God. Mark the possibilities of a few 
of these wonderful wrought machines, hovering in the air in time 
of war. 

Perceive the beautiful railroad trains gliding along their path¬ 
way of steel, crossing rivers, scanning gulches, thundering through 
tunnels, sweeping along prairies, winding about hills, piercing aged 
woodlands, running swiftly toward their destination, connecting city 
with city, town with town, hamlet with hamlet, in order that men 
might easily, swiftly and comparatively safely, travel from one end of 
the land to its utmost extremity. 

Do you want to catch another glimpse of civilization? Stand at 
a corner of our metropolitan cities. Listen to the deafening roar of 
the shrieking Ally L cars running above you. Watch the noisy 
streetcars moving at your side. See the impossible auto trucks 
blocking and choking the avenues of transportation.. Count the 
innumerable automobiles of every and any make passing noiselessly 
by you tooting and honking for their right of way. 

Contemplate at evening tide the wondrous invention of the elec¬ 
tric light system, illuminating the gracipus boulevards, recreating 
dark night into the light of a fair summer day. Wonder at the 
immense skyscrapers, whose windows at evening look like so many 
diamonds glittering in sunlight. If you have seen enough of that. 







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rest out in your home or hotel and unhook an instrument and have 
a conversation with an unseen friend miles away from the place 
where you pour happy words into his or her attentive ear. Further¬ 
more mark the marvelous connection wireless telegraphy makes with 
a sailing loved one upon the broad expanse of the briny deep - , but 
above all listen to the gracious voices in the air, the sound of piano 
and harp mingled with the sweet melody of cithern and violin played 
in a far away castle of music and heard by you at your table at home 
at the Radio-horn. Look at the factories, at the banks, at the 
churches, at the parks, the beautiful highways, the subways, the 
palaces, the waterworks, the delicate machinery, the powerful en¬ 
gines, and remember that God created man wonderfully, investing 
him with powers fainly realized, powers which he uses more as 
means of self-destruction than as a might to strengthen and upbuild 
mankind for its own benefit and the glory of its Creator. Allow me 
to remark here that man has imagined and declared himself to be 
the originator of these magnificent powers which he sees fit to apply 
to his own vain glory. 

That the latter statement is based upon un-impeachable truth is 
evidenced by the modern world itself. For instance, behold the up- 
heaping of capital into the hands of the few. What a foresight, 
what a willpower, what a concentration of thought, what a a Her- 
culian,” strength is shown in the gathering of these unspeakable 
fortunes. But is this “massing” used to influence the entire race of 
man to strive for a higher idealism, a nobler conception of life? In¬ 
deed not" Even these plutocrats and multi-millionaires do not reap 
a semblance of honor, love or virtue from this unreasonable gather¬ 
ing of the good things of the earth which God intended for mankind, 
and not for the few, the few who bereave their brethren of the need¬ 
ful things of life, allowing them a bare and pitiful existence. 
Capitalism can not work any different, for it stands to reason if the 
few gather all things together, the multitude must suffer. This 
suffering, yea this unspeakable suffering, being endured by a large 
class who are not able to feed their babes properly or to give their 
children a decent education, who die in their reeking tenement 
houses, “and no one knows it.” That unwarranted poverty is a 
calamity due to the unwise gathering of riches at which the govern¬ 
ments hoodwink claiming the glory of a Christian civilization! 

Thus we have a partial and faint glimmer of the modern world. 
In the following pages much more shall be said regarding this fair 
and at the same time so ugly and cruel world. 

The first thing to be considered is: “The Modern World, a 
Dogma-less World.” 





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CHAPTER TWO 


A Dogma-less World, 


Thou laziest evil more than good; and lying rather 
than to speak righteousness. Psalm 52:3. 

The fool hath said in his heart. There is no Cod. 
Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity, 
there is none that docth good. God looked from heaven 
upon the children of men, to see if there were any that 
did understand, that did seek Cod. 

Every one of them is gone back; they arc altogether 
become filthy; there is none that docth good, no not one. 
Psalm S3:1, 2, 3. 

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch 
himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he 
can wrap himself in it. Isaiah 28:20. 

Her princes in the midst thereof arc like wolves 
ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, 
to get dishonest gain. Ezekiel 22:27. 


Briefly we shall now view the world from the following three 
aspects: The Political World, The Intellectual World, and the Re¬ 
ligious World. The political world is purposely named first-; we 
shall discuss its existence and aim, then consider the intellectual 
world, and follow this with a short observation of the religious 
world, believing thus to climb from the lowest to the highest sphere 

The existence of the political world to-day is very complicated, 
wrought with danger, and therefore untenable. The affairs of the 
world, politically, have always been more or less complicated. The 
strategy of political economy thro out the ages lias aimed at the 
political ruin of the weaker by the stronger, unless political reasons 
required protection of the weaker one, in which case the smaller one 
usually has been used as a buffer against a possible strong enemy. 

The great Christian w T ar, yet raging in spots, has perfectly re¬ 
vealed this situation. Valiant and small Belgium, a protege of both 
England and France, withstood with their help the onslaught of the 
Germans long enough to enable the Allies to strengthen themselves 
and to prevent the Germans to take Paris. 

Politics, as is known by the most ignorant, is conceived in 
secret. Anybody may boast of being a power to change conditions, 
and arrange “open covenants openly arrived athistory has always 
proved the impossibility of such a grand scheme, and always we 
shall find kings, potentates, czars, kaisers and presidents acting un¬ 
der the cover of darkness and secrecy. Such dubious utterances are 
intended to mislead the unawares, the population, and perhaps self. 





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for indeed politics has as yet never shown an inclination to be really 
truthful to the core. A true-bred Christian may teach his children 
that “political economy” consists in: “Seek ye first the kingdom of 
God;” politics harmonizes with exactly the opposite idea. 1 his 
“secrecy in politics” is the more destructive, as it is directed by 
“special interest” working in secret, and this is the very power 
which degenerates the world into what it is to-day, a place not in the 
least comfortable, but a great volcano which at any moment may 
bulge forth the unciuenchable fire, stored away in her bosom. 

Secret diplomacy, in the name of your high sounding “political 
economy” is responsible for the League of Nations, the initial stones 
of her existence being laid as a foundation in our so strange and 
uncommon days of unrest and a feverish looking at the gloomy bod- 
ings of the coming morning. 

The League of Nations has always been in force more or less, 
standing out as “alliances and covenants” among a few nations. 
Now this idea of covenant is extended to all, or most all civilized 
countries. Internationalism, a mere change of name, is above any¬ 
thing else first a peaceable and friendly exchange of the necessaries 
and commodities of life, and is always liable, the great war being 
witness, “of ensnaring and involving the nations among themselves 
in evil desires and evil intentions, fostered by covetness and jealousy 
causing the building of great navies and armies, both excused as “in¬ 
struments for protection of commerce.” Those navies and armies, 
never created for friendly purposes, are the unholy cause of much 
agitation, fear, unrest, producing the dangerous situation which 
ultimately reaches a state of instability. 

The foregoing explanation of the “existence” of the political 
world reveals more or less clearly the secret inclination of this 
world to RULE. Ruling is her AIM. The League of Nations in 
its coming power will show not only the political, but also the re- 
ligous power handled by ONE MAN, as the Supreme Ruler. The 
various powers to-day in operation are all directed to that end. A 
single glance in the religious world detects the “Inter Church Move¬ 
ment.” Hie financial world sees capital heaped up. The Federation 
of Labor proves the theory. The gigantic trusts, the titanic monopo¬ 
lies in the commercial world are the guides on the road. The desire 
to rule, in the future concentrated in one man is the “dogma” of the 
political world. This dogma, almost anybody will realize it, is a 
false dogma, The falsity of this dogma is illustrated in our own 
being, and in the nationalities of the different peoples. Every man 
is originally purposed to think, speak and act for himself. Com¬ 
paratively few do so, and these few are the “I’s” and “IT’S” of the 
world, the lords and masters who enslaven others, who also were 
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If this is true with the individual, and it is true, it is just as true 
with the peoples. They are destined to rule themselves, therefore 
the Englishman sings “God save the King.” Grand America “My 
Country ’tis of Thee.” The Dutchman: “Wien Neerlandsch bloed.” 
etc., etc. Melt them into one, and who shall sing any one of these 
purely national hymns ? 

But there are other reasons more potent than the ones men¬ 
tioned, which we shall discuss when we view our subject from the 
religious standpoint. 

First we consider the “dogma lessness’ of the intellectual world. 

The intellectual world includes within its boundaries various 
worlds and activities. It is not necessary to enumerate them all, it 
will suffice to name one, and perhaps this is the one with the most 
grandeur, and therefore we shall meditate for a moment upon this 
world with an honest intent to expose its dogma. 

The commercial world, the world alluded to above might 
easily be considered the queen of the worlds, if I am allowed to ex¬ 
press it in such a term. This world, the world of trade, has always 
been, and shall be as long as the world stands, the main artery feed¬ 
ing individual and national life. 

The much heralded and boasted of civilization with its colossal 
schemes and multiplied inventions, developed comfort of living on 
the one side, and a new process of manufacturing on the other. 
Engine on engine, machine on machine produces immense quantities 
of trading articles calculated, in the main, to gather riches, at the 
same time, in a certain measure, relieving and distressing the work¬ 
ingman. Capitalism was the evil result of bright thoughts. This 
unwholesomeness unloosened evil spirits producing unscrupulous 
men, who in their turn used the same caliber of men to influence the 
different branches of government desiring legislation in their behalf. 
As a result of too much attention bestowed upon such influences, the 
government and the civil authorities soon felt themselves handi¬ 
capped in the fulfilling of their sworn duties. 

This naturally allowed undue protection to the few at the ex¬ 
pense of the multitude. At this moment, almost any one realizes that 
conditions are such that these few, as a secret government, have now 
complete control of the complicated machinery of government. This 
“power," in our Christless Christianity, easily could persuade the 
governments to convert their pruninghooks into swords, inducing 
America, under guise of “righteousness,” to plunge itself into this 
wicked caldron of hatred burning of a consuming fire. To-day this 
very same secret power is seeking to entice the different govern¬ 
ments to unite into one supreme empire lessening thereby the danger 
of losing their ill gotten fortunes. The League of Nations, which 
shall be the ultimate outcome of their scheming is introduced by 
them as a kingdom of peace and righteousness, which heavenly vir¬ 
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learned that one man is more easily handled than a company of men 
with various inclinations, the secret power also realizing that if one 
of the covenanters repudiates its financial obligations, which, of 
course, rest in the hands of the secret power, another country will 
and can be made to produce what the other refused. 

The statement has been made that inventions were intended to 
make the earth a worth-while place of abode. This is worthy of a 
little closer examination. In the main it looks indeed as if the state¬ 
ment is correct, and no doubt there is some truth in it, but it is not 
true in its nature. Certainly many of the minor things are indeed 
happy and agreeable inventions, for instance, the rocking chairs, the 
dressers, tables, chairs and nearly all kitchen utensils and household 
articles. Electricity, telegraph, telephone, streetcars, railroads, 
automobiles, etc., could be classified in the same catagory, but re¬ 
move the outward appearance and scrutinize the underlying strata, 
and we find a tendency in exactly opposite directions. For, behold 
the gracious auto and the other inventions. How pleasant in times 
of peace, but remember the things that happened only a few years 
ago when peace had made plhce for war, how the government laid 
its heavy hand upon all these beautiful instruments, momently trans¬ 
ferring them into means of destroying, directly or indirectly, God- 
created life. 

In this brief sketch of a partial view of the commercial world 
two underlying dogma’s are shown. The first outstanding idea 
found was the fact, that the rich, “special interest” had a secret 
control over government itself. Now, government is the manifesta¬ 
tion of God’s power vested in human beings ruling in His name. 
In a republican form of government this, God’s power is represented 
in the election of a people’s representative to the Presidency. This 
is a dogma of a republic. Behold now this dogma uprooted by the 
actions of special interests, subverting the modern world into a 
dogma-less world. 

What this unworthy, principleless organization has accom¬ 
plished in America, it has duplicated in kingly ruled Europe. The 
autocratic influence of democratic England, has stretched its culprit 
hands across the sea to be strengthened and has subdued by secret 
diplomacy our people, and with the strength of our people combined 
with their cunning has smashed, under holy pretences, mighty king¬ 
doms and flourishing empires across the waters. 

This shows that commerce guided by its God (Mammon) is 
absolutely dogma-less in regard to God Law or Government. 

Another point which should be mentioned is the idea, more or 
less clearly defined ; that the great improvements, and the wonderful 
inventions are in essence, in its ultimate ends rather used to bring 
misery to the people and depopulate the world, than to make its 
inhabitants happy and content, as they are advertised to do.— 




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1 his again illustrates the fact that the modern world is a false 
theorist, rocking itself to sleep in selfsufficiency,—defrauding its 
own out of peace, rest and beauty. 

i he modern world in all its glory is not unlike an old ugly 
woman in fancy young ladies’ garb perceiving herself in the mirror 
lisping: ‘‘Ain’t 1 a beauty tho?” 

Surely many more cases of dogmalessness of the modern world 
might be enumerated, but at this time, I feel enough has been said 
to bear out the truth, a few words must be added regarding the 
situation in the religious world. 

If any religious minded man on a sabbath day traveled from 
coast to coast and could wander in the streets of the cities he would 
be surprised to see how few of the numerous population made efforts 
to attend services in one of the many churches. The majority of 
Americans, although called Christians, have no religion whatsoever, 
and the religion they show is a sad and unsatisfying ambition, to 
seek pleasure. This “pleasure seeking” is shrewdly expressed in 
the wonderful civilized term “re-creation.” It is the auto, baseball, 
fishing-tackle, bathing, swimming and yachting, pleasures, “recrea¬ 
tions” according to circumstances for which the majority is hanker¬ 
ing- 

Man is born religious, there is no exception to the rule, true 
religion is seeking God, any other religion is merely seeking self. 
Therefore the pleasure-seekers are seeking self instead of God, Who 
said : “Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.” 

This plainly sets forth that the masses of “the modern world” 
are dogma-less, for in God alone true dogma is centered, and not in 
puny man whose breath is in his mouth, and who sustains life by a 
crump of bread. 


In and besides this majority are a more or less separately living 
class of people, who consider themselves perhaps extraordinary 
religious. They are the “divinity doctors,” the theological-profes¬ 
sors, deans and students with the clergy of universities and churches, 
who have with their dogma-less doctrines weakened the God founded 
foundation of the very earth itself. The highest, and the most 
exalted of these are the “higher critics.” Wonderfully did they 
carve, cut and dissect Scripture, substituting in its place their far 
sought, most disputed, and ungrounded theories and ideas. 

The Bible begins with the greatest dogma man ever heard of, 
and upon this dogma all other dogma’s are based and founded. The 
men of the modern world, the men of intellect, the men of culture 
and learning, styling themselves “higher critics” have endeavored to 
replace this fundamental dogma with a system of monkeys, de¬ 
veloping from atoms harvesting mankind. The “evolution theory” 
taught by them but discarded again by some of their own members 
made fearfull inroads into the stability of mankind, for men can 






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only be MEN when they acknowledge their Creator, Who made man 
after the image of His own likeness. 

It is not necessary to dwell at length upon the theory of evolu¬ 
tion of the species and to go into details of this wonderful invention, 
for it is a total denial of the very root of our being as well as of the 
existence of the universe, and as such it preaches vehemently the 
dogma-lessness of this wonderful modern world. 

The fruit of this theory shows itself splendidly in its consequent 
result. This result is the so much heralded theory of pantheism. 
True, the word does not appear very frequently as a mode of ex¬ 
pression, but its thoughts uttered in words and writings extol the 
positiveness of the idea. • Pantheism is the supposition that the 
universe and God, men and God, all forces in one is God. One who 
studies Holy Writ by the light of the Holy Spirit realizes that this 
idea makes God, the Creator, a subject unto Himself, or in other 
words; a party who creates itself, and as such he must become an 
uprooter of his own creation. This makes God an inferior Being 
who has no control over Himself, but is wrapped up in the atom 
which came from nothing. 

The writer did not write this book with the avowed intention 
to go into the details of all these wonderful schemes and inventions, 
any one wishing more light upon the subjects of evolution pan¬ 
theism and humanism, shall do well to read Discartes, the founder of 
modern philosophy, Spinoza Fichte, Schelling and Hegel and others. 
The last named maintains that: “man is both one with nature and 
with the ‘absolute Spirit/ and, therefore the highest of being, the 
last in the chain of development, in fine; ‘man is God.’ ” Of course, 
this is the result of the error of reasoning man, who, in the last stage 
of “the falling away” (spoken of by St. Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2) 
edifies sinful man as God the Divine. 

This stage is significantly expressed in the term “humanism.” 
Humanism agrees “that man can obey the law of righteousness 
without any Divine interposition, assuring us that “No revelation 
that God made of Himself and of His will in past generations, is 
authoritative for us ; as, our God is within us, being our guide. No 
book can bind us ; and no prophet can be our master.” The humanist 
sings:” I am the master of my faith, 

I am the captain of my soul. ” 

It is plain and very evident that this revolutionary spirit pre¬ 
pares the highway for Anti-Christ. This person exalted by man 
shows himself the manifestation of God planning to unseat the Holy 
One. It really does not take much time or study to behold the 
modern world preparing itself to receive its great king, who shall be 
Master of State and Church. 

God himself has drawn this man’s picture with an indelible 
pencil, to forwarn His Elect to see and flee this evil being. The 





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prophet Daniel calls him “The Little Horn'’ Dan 7:8. drawing 
chapter 8, 9 and 10 the image of his type “Antiochus Epephanus" 
and the expected one. St. Paul in 2 Thes 2 :3 calls him “The man 
of sin." St. John, the Patmos Seer, in Revelation 13:18 calls him 
“the Number of Man" (666). In Chapter 17 he is revealed as “The 
Eighth King." Chapter 19:20 identifies him as “The False Prophet.” 
Chapter 13:11 shows him “The Beast Coming out of the Earth” and 
the Apostel John in his first letter verse 8 brings him forward as 
“The Anti-Christ,” who denies Christ and God and of whom Isaiah 
says: How art thou fallen from heaven, O, Lucifer, son of the 
morning, (who said:) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; 
I will be like the most High. Yet thou shaft be brought down to 
hell, to the sides of the pit. etc. Isaiah 14:9 to and with 32. 

Enough has been said to pronounce the religion of the modern 
world worse than any preceding religions of heathens and Christians. 
God and Creation, are the fundamental dogma's of the universe. 
Both are denied and replaced by the LIE founded in hell. Now the 
Lie can never be a dogma, hence the modern world with all its lustre 
and glitter has no dogma. Has no dogma in politics, no dogma in 
intellectualism, no dogma in religion, and is therefore a world utterly 
void of the smallest atom of a dogma. 







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20 WITH INCOMPREHENSIBLE IDEAS 


CHAPTER THREE 

A World Filled With Incomprehensible Ideas. 

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O 
inhabitant of the earth. From the uttermost part of the 
earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. 
But l said: My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me: The 
treacherous dealers have dealt treacherous; yea, the 
treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Isaiah 

24:17, 16. 

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and 
stablished a city by iniquity. Habakkuk 2:2. 

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall 
justle one against another in the broad ways; they shall 
seem like torches, they shall run like lightnings. Nahum 
2:4. 


There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is 
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. Isaiah 24:11. 

Then said he unto them. Nation shall rise against 
nation and kingdom against kingdom. Luke 21:10. 


A casual observer looking- about him, contemplating upon the 
various activities of man engaged in the different movements on 
foot to better the world wonders at the conflicting and opposing 
forces bitterly contesting each other for supremacy, each boasting 
virtues strange to the other, and each proclaiming to lead to the so 
much coveted goal. 

The great war, fought with the avowed purpose of conquering 
the earth, has seemingly released a horde of evil spirits, who. dis¬ 
guised as angels of light have invaded man’s field of labor and 
thought, making men unfit for a sober and noble discharge of their 
God-ordained obligations to serve Him and each other. 

We saw the incomprehensible idea of a “secret power" trans¬ 
planting government. This power, it is to be to remembered, cen¬ 
ters in the “International Banking Association," and masters and 
controls government, financial and almost any other power, clashing 
more or less with a more and more suspicious growing labor element. 

This evil financial power, protected by the various governments, 
heaps mighty fortunes upon mighty fortunes on the one side, places 
on the other side unbearable burdens, disturbs thus the balance of 
citizenship and divides the people into two unevenly matched classes. 




THE MODERN WORLD 


21 


Ibis very undesirable situation cannot help to produce a mighty 
conflict, a horrid struggle as never before witnessed on this old 
globe, a calamity by which the French Communium, the German 
uprooting, the Russian Revolution sink into insignificancy, even tho 
it be admitted that they are the preludes of the fast approaching 
drama. 

Looking into another direction the observer meets with a 
dexterous movement frought with the most bewildering calamities. 

In almost all the countries of the globe some wise men advise 
the restless modern world to calm itself and lie down in PEACE. 
These men are the rulers of the earth, who, as some great doctors 
have mixed a medicine which they claim will restore old earth to a 
peaceful swinging in the glorious heavens. They are the guides of 
the destinies of the peoples, who, they calculate can live in peace and 
harmony under one roof, the League of Nations. Their clamor is 
taken up by the clergy in general, they, unaware and unmindful of 
the Scriptures, dream of a peaceful earth, a millennium in which 
men live in Brotherhood in the Fathership of the great God. 
America, awakening out of its trance of establishing “democracy" 
on the earth, killing off militarism, and helping the “weaker nations” 
is verv much in doubt as to the merit of the above described medi- 

j 

cine. Her statesmen, with the people at large are noticing the trap 
set for them, and feeling what it has cost them to help build this 
conveyance of fraud, are as yet not ready to grant old diplomatic 
England a warranty-deed to this country. Ex-President, Woodrow 
Wilson, and the International Banking Association, each for their 
own particular reasons have openly and secretly advocated joining 
the outlandish combination notwithstanding the soundly founded op¬ 
position. Accepting Ex-President Wilson’s excuse “for Humanity's 
sake” to join the League, forstalling thereby the breaking of old 
wicked Europe's heart, there is, besides this plea abundance of proof 
that much more pressing reasons prevailed with the ex-president to 
insist upon America signing the covenant which he secretly arranged 
with the rulers on the other side of the big waters. 

Regarding this humanity idea, I hope to look a little closer in this 
“obscure idea” of a loveless and very egoistic modern world, when 
we consider the “Pious World.” 

Just like some years ago the Peace Palace at the Hague, Hol¬ 
land, symbolized a world PEACE so now, when the great war shat¬ 
tered all the beautiful aircastles, I say: so now they have erected and 
are contemplating a much more glorious scheme in which the world 
will live comfortably in peace, and this scheme is the so much praised 
and the so much denounced League of Nations. This League of 
Nations, so the great men teach, will abolish war, reduce armor, and 
restrict navies. O, surely, this sounds beautiful and nobody should 
wonder that a Scripture-denying clergy supports the movement with 









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WITH INCOMPREHENSIBLE IDEAS 


much ado and pulpit oratory. How incomprehensible the one thing 
and the other is, is shown by the fact that these very same RULERS 
are building at the same time plenty murderous air and seaships 
storing up an abundance of war material as if they expect that by 
tomorrow again nation will rise up against nation and kingdom 
against kingdom. This plainly reveals that “the treacherous dealers 
have dealt treacherously, yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very 
treacherously.” ' Was this true in the time of Isaiah, God knows it 
is more true to-day, proving that history repeats itself. The very 
opposing ideas are prophesied by Isaiah, Chapter 2, and Joel, Chap¬ 
ter 3. 

Again, when we observe the so sweet sounding “Interchurch 
World Movement” we notice a strange unchurch-like air. Holy 
Writ depicts the church as a spiritual body having its head “Christ” 
in heaven. This reality ought to make the church spiritual minded, 
and what do we see: a movement calculated to scrape the gold to¬ 
gether as dust, even as if God’s kingdom represents a kingdom of 
earthly glory. It is not surprising that the great denominations re¬ 
fuse to subscribe to the movement, for it is an altogether too clumsy 
undertaking. No doubt, but the Interchurch Movement is con¬ 
ceived in hell but the founder was too reckless in the exposition of 
his aim, and in the election of the leaders, but surely future shall 
reveal the same scheme decorated with glorious religious colors. 
When we deliberate the Pious World we shall have an opportunity 
to pay a little closer attention to this pious movement, fitting in -so 
nicely with the extraordinary times. Another circumstance worthy 
of our attention, and which is surely, “A Sign of the Times;” is the 
spirit of democracy, fostered by the world war, which unexpectedly, 
as a mighty billow overwhelmed kings and thrones, leaving in its 
wake an unstable uncontrollable and unconquerable desire of splin¬ 
tering and smashing old and new born regimes. Democracy, in its 
proper element is pantheistic. It is an evolution which in the long 
ago dethroned “Theocracy” and established “Autocracy” which in 
the process of evolution develops democracy, a power which is in¬ 
capable of recognizing powers higher than its own. A Christian 
observer will take cognizance of the fact that this “evolution” is the 

reverse of the theory of evolution. 

• 

Democracy is absolutely a stranger to God, is deprived of recog¬ 
nizing the powers that are as ordained bv God. and therefore, the 
truer it develops out of its own principle, the worse the “Godforget- 
fullness” will exploit its horrid ugliness. Russia may call it “bol- 
shivism.” France may apply the name of “communium,” and Eng¬ 
land may baptize it “radicalism” and America may brag about her 
“democracy,” it is all the same in essence. It is the spirit of revolu¬ 
tion, which upset paradise by revolting against the “LAW of God,” 
and which will soon upset the entire earth, destroying all semblance 
of God given law, declaring war against heaven itself. 





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23 


1 lie government inaugurated at the birth of America, in ap¬ 
pearance the same as the present differs widely from it, for America 
has today a “Autocrat-democracywhile the founders of this re¬ 
public adhered closely to what may be rightfully classified as a 
“Theo-democracy.” 

Another illustration of an incomprehensible state of affairs is 
what happened recently in the city of Chicago. In this particular 
case, the best of lawyers framed a primary-law for the State of 
Illinois. This law was approved by the House of Representatives, 
who passed upon it, and was duly signed by the governor of the 
State. But when the law came into operation, and it was found 
that it did not work as expected; these very same lawyers and 
governor appealed to the Supreme Court, which saw to it that it was 
nullified, after hearing only the testimony of a criminal, defeating in 
its decision the people and saving “secret government.” 

Many cases of “instability, insecurity, unreliability, incompre¬ 
hensible actions of governments as well as of the people, of conven¬ 
tions as well as of bodies of law-makers, of employers as well as of 
employees, as clergy as well as of laymen, of pulpit as well as of 
theater, might be enumerated, all tending to preach the seriousness 
of the times. The very air is full of disfranchising, defrauding, dis¬ 
organizing spirits who dexterously lead humanity to the hope of the 
ages, the great and wonderful Superman, who now knocks at the 
gate of the world, and of whom Jesus said: “some one will come in 
his own name, him you will accept/’ 



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CHAPTER FOUR 

A Very Materialistic World. 


Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with 
goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that 
thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, 
and naked. Revelation 3:17. 

The merchants of these things, which are made rich 
by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, 
weeping and wailing. Revelation 18:13. 

This know also that in the last days perilous times 
shall come. Tor men shall be lovers of their own selves, 
traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more 
than lovers of God. Timothy 3:1, 2, 4. 

Woe unto them; for they have gone in the zvay of 
Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for re¬ 
ward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. Jude it. 

Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is 
there any end of their treasures, their land is also full of 
horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. Isaiah 

2:7. 


Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, 
and whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things. 
Philip plans 3:19. 


Two thousand and six hundred years ago, Elijah thinking to he 
alone a servant of the Most High, was informed by Jehovah that 
seven thousand like him had not bowed down for Baal. 

Meditating upon the materialistic inclinations of the modern 
world, in which it is nearly impossible to find a human being con¬ 
trary-minded; it is a relief to be enabled to reflect upon Elijah and 
gather the assurance from above that there are also today many who 
have not wandered after strange gods, modern Baal, “god Mam¬ 
mon,'" although every one seems to exert himself to serve this cold 
and cruel master of the enlightened Christian world. 

Comforted by this knowledge, the knowledge that God saves 
His own ; it will be easier to behold the spectacle of magnificent men 
abducting and absconding in fast fleeing materialism. 

Scripture says: “men are like the beasts of the field who perish,” 
and yet, notwithstanding this fact, Scripture also depicts man of a 






THE MODERN WORLD 25 


much higher order than the beasts, for God created man after His 
ow n likeness. 1 his image of God is not exhibited in the carnal body, 
but in the glorious soul which cannot die. A more or less clearer 
manifestation of this “Likeness of God ' shows in the lovingness of 
the soul dwelling in the body of the true Christian, who seeks after 
God, and loses itself into the things of God, although mere man be¬ 
holds it not. 

Contrary to these are the majority whose highest aim is ac¬ 
cumulation of the glittering things of the materialistic world, which, 
as a dream, flutter away. 

This longing for and reaching out after the things of the world 
is in one sphere identified with “the struggle for existence,” and in 
another sphere wtih the unwarranted heaping up of never heard of 
fortunes. 

Scripture says: “W here the treasure is there is the heart also.” 
A treasure consists in the valuation man puts upon the things that 
appeal to him. The inclinations of all men are carnally minded, but 
a rebirth changes this and bends it over to the spiritual. These then 
become the spiritually-minded who place their valuation upon the 
unseen, heavenly treasures, which do not change nor pass away, 
while the carnally-minded value only those things which appeal to 
the eye the senses and the desires of a heart corrupt from birth. 

This denotes that there are two streams in the world flowing in 
opposite directions. The great majorities, the immense multitudes 
are seeking the things of the world, while only a very few are look¬ 
ing for the city above whose Master builder is Christ Jesus. 

To follow the great multitudes in their various activities and be¬ 
hold them esteeming things of no real value whatsoever, is the task 
which now lies before us. Again we might divide the modern world 
into two different groups. One group seeking satisfaction in possess¬ 
ing the things which glorify the flesh, and the other group the things 
which glorify the spirit. The first named are those who seek riches, 
and the other those who delight in receiving homage, but both of 
them have this in common, that they seek self. The class goaling 
after riches are. as a rule, void of pity, their love for gain despises 
tenderness, and their virtues are none as they offer all human kind¬ 
ness upon the altar of unrighteous Mammon. How great a sin this 
is, is depicted in the sorry spectacle, that God withholds from some 
of them, even in this life, the power to use their riches for their own 
benefit. These people are the corrupters of the earth, the men who 
spoil themselves and all things with which they come in contact. 

The other class are not so harmful as long as they abstain from 
polluting the religious world, in which some of them move. This 
class as long as they seek their own glory in the vain knowledge of 
the movement of heavenly bodies, and other things pertaining to the 
wisdom of the world their aim is “aimless” I would say; but when 
these learned self-seekers in the religious sphere try to place them- 






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selves in the seat of God, then they are more harmful than all the 
other combined. But as we are not now speaking about the religious 
situation of the modern world, but dwell more particularly upon 
the materialistic inclinations of this world, we will leave the first 
named at rest, to gain a better view of materialism. 

Intellectualism is the field of the higher minded, and at the 
same time it is also the solid base upon which commerce, banking, 
industry and other occupations and vocations are founded. A close 
observation will reveal that the one cannot be without the other. 

The inventor, the man of intellect, lays the foundation upon 
which high finance is reared. The fortune gatherer understands 
how to utilize to his own advantage a new invention intended to be 
for the benefit of the public in general, selling the production to the 
highest bidder. i\s a matter of course; an invention, if properly 
handled will bring financial results. The invented machinery of 
all sort, in connection with great schemes to develop industries and 
commerce strengthened and protected by legislation has produced 
the trusts and the monopolies which are so unfair in competition and 
so unsound in doctrine. Now, upon these unwise and unwholesome 
applications of the merits of inventions are built the enormous, 
monstrous, gigantic and colossal fortunes of the modern world. 
These fortunes are the menace of civilization, the cancer which 
eats the life of the nations, destroying the very roots of the exist¬ 
ence of the world. That hankering after materialism, be it in small 
or large proportion, leads men to become mere self seekers, whose 
deplorable actions with their own unhappy state is vividly depicted 
in Holy Scripture. Seeking self, or egoism, is a cold blooded, nar¬ 
row minded, unreasonable ambition, which, in the political world is 
engaged to establish a combination of nations framed to dethrone 
the Almighty, while in the religious world it directs the churches 
to unification in humanism, calculating to place mere man upon the 
glorious seat of the Creator of the Universe. 

It is very evident that capital on the one hand, and labor with 
its various organizations on the other hand are both occupied in 
establishing the regime of the coming “superman’ 7 who shall control 
the entire world, both falsely dreaming that such a regime will be 
able to solve the great social and political problems of the modern 
world. In this world movement capital is the disputed leader, lead¬ 
ing by a system of falsehood and corruption as never before wit¬ 
nessed upon this most wonderful created globe. Undisputable, capi¬ 
tal has so far been able to control the opposing forces, aiming at 
the same goal. This, our age. is the age of capital, and how fearful, 
how wicked, cold and cruel this age might be ; it is yet by far to be 
desired above the horrid rule of the revolting spirit of the near' 
future-age which shall plunge this old sinfilled world from the brink 
of the abyss, into the very throes of the great tribulations spoken of 
by Christ in Mathew 24. 







THE MODERN WORLD 


27 


As long as capital was national, it was bad but passable, but 
when it identified itself with internationalism the world itself reeled 
and trembled as a drunken man, hardly able to overcome the tre¬ 
mendous shock which shook it with such disastrous results. The 
great war, yet raging, no matter how dexterously explained, or 
beautifully colored, was and is in reality nothing but a mighty con¬ 
vulsion in financial centers, which formed the base of the gigantic 
struggle, which again had its foundation in the religious world, of 
which we shall speak later. 

The root of all evil is centered in the desire to gather riches, 
which is the recognized controlling power. A beggar might scheme 
at it, also kings and rulers may reach after it. It is of little value 
to know the name of the party engaged to conquer all, but it is 
worth the world to behold the man activily scheming the universe 
into his pocketbook. The man who is openly accused of stealing the 
world is not so much to be feared, but the one secretly plotting to 
rule the universe is the man or power for which the entire world 
may look out as for a fearful evil. 

It is of the greatest importance to know whether the Kaiser 
sought to conquer the world, or whether his accuser, England, tries 
to establish that feat, or whether another party plans to accomplish 
this very thing. 

The great Christian world war was fought with the secret desire 
and the avowed purpose to lay the Christian world down at the feet 
of one man. For this ideal kingdoms were smashed, and law and 
order were set aside and in the name of God unrighteousness was 
sold for righteousness. The great war, yet burning, is instrumental 
in organizing the secret forces into one combination of evil, out of 
which the great genius will come before whom the kings of the 
earth shad creep in the dust of the earth, and who shall receive glory 
from the misguided multitudes, being acclaimed by them as the great 
deliverer of the world. 

The unrighteous rich, with their unscrupulous motives have 
defied from the beginning God’s laws and orders. The blood of 
slaughtered humanity can be traced to the temple of Mammon. 


' That unprecedented hankering after materialism, that goaling 
after riches, that unholy reaching out for the things of the world in 
the modern world, is not the- sin of the capitalist only but is the sin 
of the churches as well. It took the spirit of the modern world to 
introduce into the Christian churches its worldly. Godless, faithless 
budget system, the god of the most corrupted political world. One 
minister of the calvinistic pulpit even, offered the unwarranted 
statement and excuse that the budget system was and is not a cold¬ 
blooded business proposition but an object of Christian faith. (The 
cold Dollar worth as much as Christ.) Could a surer sign of 
extreme materialism as preached to-day be found in ages behind us? 






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The great wise man Solomon said: “A present blinds the eye and 
corrupts the heart.” Sure, this is truer in the religious world than 
in any other, and yet, how eagerly grabs the hand of the minister of 
the gospel the coveted dollar laughingly jokingly. 1 he signs of the 
modern world are bountifully exposed in the church papers. J here 
is no boasting in the spirit of Christ, of Christ who had no hole like 
the foxes to lie in, and no nest like the birds to rest in, but there is 
a boasting in the great number of members, the beautiful churches, 
the fine parsonages, the learned men of the churches, the great 
church organs, the great colleges with their million dollar schemes, 
etc., etc. 

The labor forces in the industrial world are like the capitalists, 
and the clergy, busily engaged in scheming to harvest a great crop of 
materialism in the modern world. Strikes and strikes are the order 
of the day. It does not matter how lavishly labor is rewarded, the 
cry for more is raised just the same. No one is satisfied! Every¬ 
thing is unstable! Unrest is the air we breathe. Mankind is swayed 
to and fro. No one knows what is going to happen to-morrow. 
Reality has become unreal, certainty has lost its footing. Everybody 
lives in the expectation of great things to happen, and everybody is 
trying to get the best of the prevailing situation. Religion is clothed 
in commerce and commerce is dressed in religion. Everybody toots 
and blows some kind of a horn. Religious papers boast of Christ 
with dollars in the pocket, and the Dollar glorifies a Christ, the car¬ 
penter of Nazareth. To sum up; the world, the beautiful modern 
world is a thoroughly organized world in regard to materialism, in 
which even the church has lost the last vestige of identification, com¬ 
peting with the world for the crown, although she vehemently denies 
this charge. 

This sinister condition is created by the great number of in¬ 
human “christians” who took to murdering during the World War. 
A war which originated from purely materialistic reasons, and 
which the churches declared to be “Righteous.” This war weakened 
the foundation of religion, loosened the rocks of common sense, 
uprooted law and order and established chaos in the political, in¬ 
tellectual and religious worlds, which form the so much boasted of 
“Modern Christian World.” 

As a result of modern materialism the modern world is in con¬ 
vulsions, the throes and pangs of a woman in travail are upon her, 
and to-morrow she may be delivered of her great son, the wonderful 
intellect, the mighty gatherer of forces, the so long expected one 
who will try to reach the heavens, who being exalted by the earth- 
dwellers will consider himself fit to replace the Almighty, because 
apparent success in the materialistic world seems to crown him, but 
his regime shall be an endless string of troubles and adversities and 
calamities as never before the old earth has witnessed and his end, 
and the culmination of the materialistic modern world shall be a 
total doom. 




A VERY PIOUS WORLD 



CHAPTER FIVE 

A Very Pious World. 


And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, 
and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift 
up szvord against nation neither shall they learn war any 
more. Their land is also full of idols; they worship the 
work of their hands, that which their own fingers have 
made; and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they 
please themselves in the children of strangers. Isaiah 
2:4, 7, 6. 

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon 
precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and 
there a little. Isaiah 28:10. 


1 have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy 
lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 
Jeremiah 23:25. 


For false Christs and false prophets shall arise, and 
shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were pos¬ 
sible, even the elect. Mark 13:22. 

Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their 
mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have re¬ 
moved their heart far from me. Isaiah 29:13. 


The modern Christian world acts very much like Esau who 
sold his birthright for a mass of porridge. With the slogan “come, 
let us eat and drink and be merry for to-morrow we may die” the 
world is foolishly attempting to pacify itself with dwelling in a seem¬ 
ingly lustrous abode, wallowing in fast fleeting materialism which 
cannot satisfy at all. 

In its sweeping goaling after materialism it realizes the need 
of a covering which will clothe her for the expected appearance of a 
most righteous judge. This covering is the bright cloak of religion 
which it claims and cuts to its liking, snugly fitting it about its con¬ 
spicuous body, meeting more than half way the church which has 
unscrupulously fitted herself in a coat of commerce betraying her¬ 
self to her enemy and seducer. 

The newest and most pompous garb in which the “modern 
world” has so charmingly appeared lately, is the “Interchurch 
World Movement” 






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THE MODERN WORLD 


Perhaps some-one might suggest that this movement was a 
church and not a world movement. This argument is easily set at 
naught by the so vehemently expressed idea which was very much in 
evidence that the gathering of many millions was the vital and pivot 
point of interest about which the entire movement centered,—show¬ 
ing forth the spectacle that the whole religious scheme was nothing 
but a very materialistic ambition. This plainly demonstrates that 
cold, unfeeling god Mammon is deliberately decking himself with a 
very pious mantle. And indeed both Mammon and the world have 
sufficient reasons to appear in a religious cloak. 

Mammon’s throne, secret government, (referred to in preceding 
chapters) after dethroning kings, and depopulating the earth, is 
shaking and tottering, and to forestall an imminent smash-up and a 
complete wreckage, Mammon and the world have entered into part¬ 
nership busily occupying their allotted time in buying religious tim¬ 
ber coloring it with the bright hue of adulterated sweet Godliness. 

Special and especially privileged interests comprehending the 
meaning of yonder rumbling thunder and understanding the signif¬ 
icance of the angry roar of the surging billows, are deliberating upon 
ways and means to put oil upon the swelling waves by recommending 
to restore the Bible in the Public School, in a limited form, believing 
thereby to ward off an impending catastrophe. 

Any one looking beneath the pious surface will observe that this 
move is meant solely to save self, as it must appear unto him that a 
limited use of bible-instruction is calculated to be a dyke of safety 
against the maelstrom of Socialism, Bolshiviki, and Anarchism. To 
show that this a bible-movement” is nothing but a cloak of a religious 
color, let us look into the reality of the situation a little closer. It 
is a fact that the very same modern world is also arranging all of 
its evil un-American force and spirit to kill outright the very school 
which still uses Scripture in full in its curriculum. This brings out 
the conflicting theories struggling for mastery in the pious modern 
world. The one tendency is to strengthen the god of this age with 
a mixture of materialism and religion, which we may conveniently 
call, the spirit of this age, while the tendency to boldly oust biblical 
education from all schools reveals the fierce ungallant and monstrous 
spirit of the coming age, the age of socialism, bolshiviki and an¬ 
archism. Mammon is bound to protect self, even tho he shall do it by 
the use of Scripture, while Mammons protege, secret societies, boast¬ 
ing upon the Scriptures, tries to displant it by a doctrine of patriot¬ 
ism, not founded upon the bible. 

Deliberating upon these things and observing many other points 
of interest, the statement made by many intellectual men that the 
world is getting better and better, seems to be the lie, intellect fabri¬ 
cated out of wholesale falsehood, for, if we consider the spirit which 
moves the modern world to discard the everlasting word of God, 
stealing it from the growing generations than no one need to be a 






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prophet to see calamity following calamities, and castrophy following 
castrophies until the end of the world falls upon the modern Christian 
world as a thief in the night, as foretold in Scripture. 

1 he aim of the Interchurch World Movement is practically the 
same as the aim of the League of Nations. The League of Nations 
connects the political existence of the different Christian nations 
binding them together under one supreme ruler. The Interchurdh 
World Movement perfects the same situation along religious lines 
with the very same peoples uniting the ruling churches into one gen¬ 
eral church under one head. Both of these movements are indeed 
very pious movements of the so exceedingly materialistic world and 
are at the same time two mighty powers in the Modern World. 
These two great powers with their religious trimmings are identified 
in Scripture. Revelation 13 depicts two beasts, the one coming out 
of the sea. the other out of the land. The one out of the sea is read¬ 
ily recognized by the movement of an united Christian world, op¬ 
posing the Almighty in The League of Nations. In the beast out of 
the land a sober observer can not fail to see the picture of the Inter¬ 
church World Movement. A more complete view of these beasts 
will be given when we speak and meditate upon the Anti-Christ. 

While the kings of the earth were deliberating about everlasting 
peace and for that purpose had erected in The Hague their beautiful 
peace palace, and when Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox sang so sweetly: 

“If you glance at history’s pages 
In all lands and eras known, 

You will find the vanished ages 
Far more wicked than our own. 

As you scan each word and letter 
You will realize it more 
That the world to-day is better 
Than it ever was before. 

then, at a most unexpected moment hell turned loose, and the un¬ 
christian world-war, predicted by Christ in Mathew 24:7, smashed 
all of the stupendous and glorious dreams of mankind, sick and 
dead in the corrupting sins of egoism, self-righteousness and man 
edification. And to-day, when kings are dethroned, kingdoms shat¬ 
tered and peoples broken, to-day again the sweet voice of the seducer 
is heard in a peace song while the very rocks of the earth tremble 
and shudder under the weight of ammunition, and the seas are alive 
with the darting monsters holding hell in their folds, and the air is 
rent with the noise and the rattle of machinery intended to inflame 
earth, hell and heaven. 

All this is happening when the whole world piously proclaims 
the glory of “The Carpenter of Nazareth.” the “great Master” whom 
they hate and despise and for thirty pieces of silver crucify anew. 
Yes, indeed, a very pious world this Modern World of to-day '• 




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Behold the great “dry movement.” Behold and see how much 
better the world grows day by day. Isaiah seeing this day said: 
“There is a crying for wine in the streets, every house is shut up, 
that no man may come in.” Isaiah 24:10, 11. 

This statement pictures present conditions in brilliant words. 
The saloons, the great sources of revenue are “shut up” no man 
may enter into them. The forlorn frequenter of these reeking holes 
Wanders along the streets cursing looking for “wine" and being 
unable to quench his ever present thirst. The saloons are closed, the 
manufacturing of strong drink is prohibited, and yet; behold the 
drunkard staggering along the gutters, satisfying his unwholesome 
thirst with poison or home-made brew unlawfully boiled. And yet 
generally speaking after all; the prohibition or dry laws accomplish 
much good. Undeniable, a moral improvement manifestly spreads 
over the length and the breadth of the land, but a cold, unfeeling 
moral improvement does not effect a change of heart. Apparently 
many good people are led astray by the appearance of things, and 
are possessed of a dislike to contemplate upon “the signs of the 
times” so plentious and mightily revealed in our days. 

Attending an adult bible class, the teacher, a shrewd lawyer 
made very much of the “dry movement” imagining it to be the gates 
of the “millennium.” Being asked to express my opinion regarding 
it, I proved to the audience that said movement was a mere moral 
improvement, while a spiritual improvement should center about 
Christ, the Redeemer of the world. Such Sunday schools and such 
Churches with no deeper grounds for salvation abound in the land, 
clearly exposing the fact that the world is very pious indeed basing 
her redemption upon political trickery and religious humbug. The 
dry movement is a compulsory reformation assisting the pious In¬ 
terchurch World Movement to set up the throne of the so much 
desired superman, whose breath is corrupting his obedient and will¬ 
ing followers. 


Another notable thing of the world dry movement is worthy of 
a moment’s reflection. For instance the wine is withheld from the 
poor, while the rich debase themselves in the wineglass as if a law 
against the use of it never had been made. They have their cellars 
laden with it, or simply move to a country where no prohibition laws 
are in effect, thereby proving the very words of St. John when he 
says in Revelation 6 :6 “hurt not the oil and wine.” 

Years ago the rich were busily engaged to frustrate the sooth¬ 
ing and balming effects of Scripture by removing the bible out of the 
public schools. To-day, they realize their blunder and now they 
move heaven and earth in order to restore Scripture again into the 
life of the public schools. Why? and what are the reasons for this 
unexpected move? Because they tremble for the future. Because 






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they find their ill-gotten fortunes in danger to be swept away from 
them. Because they notice that they dug their own graves, and now. 
piously, in the name of religion they covet the blessed influence of 
Scripture, hoping it will carry the burden of their ill-begotten and 
over-balanced fortunes. 

The last generation missed the calming influence and the up¬ 
lifting and regenerating virtues of Scripture, but a spirit void of 
reason, strange to love sowed malice and evil where grace, good¬ 
will and tenderness ruled before, and now these minds are the well 
watered fields, the fertile gardens for the seeds of Russian Bolshe- 
viki, French Communism, English Socialism, and American Huma¬ 
nism. Indeed the “unrighteous Mammon" is changing the face of 
the world into a pious commercial hypocrite. Do you desire the 
picture? Behold then the mighty conflict, yet raging. Perceive, 
nation against nation, as never the earth witnessed before. See; 
the world war, the caldron of hell-hatred. This war, predicted by 
Christ; was instigated by Mammon and by him pronounced as a 
“righteous war,” even, ministers of the gospel, (so called) ; spoke 
of “soldiers blood which with the blood of Christ” was now re¬ 
deeming the world. Pure nonsense and gross blasphemy. Behold 
the righteous war: in the name of God, Christians killing Christians 
for the sake of gain. Yes, the world is very pious indeed, calling 
the wholesale slaughtering of the youth of the white race righteous, 
offering these lives upon the altar of Baal, sacrificing the fruit of 
the womb to god Moloch. 

In this chapter we have seen the unregenerated old world in 
the power of satan covering itself with a very religious mantle, and 
in the following chapter we shall behold the gracious church decking 
herself with the beautiful garb of commercialism. 





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CHAPTER SIX 

The Sleeping Church. 


Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto 
ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to 

meet the bridegroom . While the bridegroom tarried, 

they all slumbered and slept. Math 25:1, 5 . 

Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as 
ye think not the Son of man cometh. Math 24:44. 

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s 
crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not con¬ 
sider. Isaiah 1:3, 21. 

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the rob¬ 
bersf . Therefore he had poured upon him the fury 

of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it had set 
him on fire round about, yet he knew not, and it burned 
him, yet he laid it not to heart. Isaiah 42:24, 23. 

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to 
my face; that sacrificeth in gardens which remain among 
the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat 
swine's desk, and broth of abominable things is in their 
vessels; which says stand by thyself, come not near to 
me, for I am holier-than thou. Isaiah 65:3, 4, 5 . 

For the land is full of adulterers, and their course is 
evil. For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in 
my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. 
Jeremiah 23:10, 11. 

And my people arc bent to backsliding from me; 
though they called them to the most High, none at all 
would exalt HIM. Hosca 11:7. 

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in 
the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the 
nations, to whom the house of Israel came. Amos 6:1. 

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned 
mine holy things; they have put no difference betzveen 
the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference 

between the unclean and the clean . And her 

prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, 
seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying Thus 
said the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. 
Ezekiel 22:26, 28. 









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IIis watchmen arc blind; they are all ignorant, they 
are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying 
down, loving to slumber. ) ea, they are greedy dogs 
which can never have enough and they arc shepherds that 
cannot understand! they all look to their own way, every 
one for his gain, for his quarter. Isaiah 56:10, 11. 

Against whom do you sport yourselves? against 
whom do you make a wide mouth? and draw out the 
tongue? are ye tiot children of transgression, a seed of 
J alsehood ? Endaming yourselves under every green 
tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cli'fts of 
the rocksf Isaiah 57:4, 5. 


There is more or less misconception in regard to what constitutes 
the church. Some alluding to the church, refer to the very elect, 
only known by God. Over against those are they, who, speaking 
about the church mean Christendom in general as represented in the 
different church denominations. 

It seems to me that the latter idea is incorporated in the word 
“church” and is therefore in full accord with Scripture. 

In Revelation 12:1 God depicts the church as He alone is able 
to behold her, for He sees her as a woman clothed with the sun, 
the moon under her feet, crowned with twelve stars. This is the 
pure, spotless church, redeemed out of all peoples tongues and na¬ 
tions, so glorious as no man could make nor find her. In Revelation 
17 God draws the picture of the church as she in reality is in His 
sight, an extremely unclean and vile woman sitting upon a mon¬ 
strous beast, revealing the Church at large carried by the corrupt 
political State. Again, in Revelation 18, the true Revealer likens the 
church to a city (Babylon). In a city, who knows it not? dwells 
the good next to the bad, the pure next to the vile, the righteous next 
to the unrighteous. The Almighty, in the picture of a city unfolds 11 s 
the real church situation, setting, forth the fact that within Chris¬ 
tendom in general is found the Christendom in reality, The Christian 
living in His God. 

The Bible is not wrong. And, if we follow Scripture and hold 
the idea of a city before us; it seems to me we can never go'wrong 
nor fail to have a true conception of the meaning of “church.” 

That Christ Jesus also looks upon the church in accord with 
this interpretation is perfectly illustrated in the parable of the ten 
virgins of Mathew 25, in which the last days of the world, and of 
the church are so vividly portrayed. 

After meditating and reflecting upon the following points, we 
can not fail to grasp an inkling of the indeed sorrowful and lament¬ 
able church conditions now prevailing, presuming the reader believes 
with the writer that Jesus pictures in the parable of the ten virgins 
the few moments preceding His glorious return, which cannot be 
delayed so very long any more. 





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These points are: 

(1) . 1 he League of Nations. 

(2) . The Inter-Church World Movement. 

(3) . The Dry Movement. 

(4) . The Righteous War. 

(5) . Commercialism. 

(6) . Democracy. 

(7) . The Tendency to Deny the Meaning of this Great World 

War. 

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. 

St. Paul in Thessalonians 2 describes very clearly two great 
each other opposing powers. By careful reading and prayerful 
meditation it will dawn upon one that these two gigantic powers are 
contending for the mastership of the political world. 

One of these powers is easily identified as representing the 
titanic force of evil centralizing its existence in a covenant of Chris¬ 
tian nations, so called, combining glory, power, finance, military art, 
culture and wisdom to oppose the Almighty replacing Him with a 
splendid product of its cunning. This is the unheralded aim and the 
sinister object of the so much coveted League of Nations, which is 
also known by the gracious title of : “The New Internationalism," 
and the so much meaning name of: “The Federation of the World, 
the Parliament of MEN.” 

The force opposing this bold sinister cunningly devised, hell- 
concocted scheme consists of the waning influence of the Holy Spirit 
dwelling in the church, from which, without any political organiza¬ 
tion, it extends its merciful, uplifting, loving and good will ten¬ 
dencies in the political world, to day more dead in denying God and 
consequent corruptness, than ever before. 

Paul, in said chapter, depicts the struggle and its ultimate re¬ 
sult, and therefore, it is no prophecy, nor an attempt at it to say that 
this League of Nations shall erelong be master of all of the so called 
Christian world, having at its head one man for whom the entire 
world shall fall in the dust, and who shall receive homage of all 
kings, rulers, presidents and potentates, as is plainly revealed by 
God in Revelations 17. 

After this brief biblical sketch of “the Covenant of the Nations” 
it behooves us to find out how the church in general behaves toward 
this political scheme. 

As it appears to me, the church at large is favoring very much 
this great political scheme, but because of the strong aggitation, in 
some quarters against the recklessly framed up League of Nations 
idea ; abstains more or less from identifying herself with the move¬ 
ment, although the tendencies favoring the cause have been very 
pronouncedly advocated by the individual pastors. 

And why, why is the church in general so very friendly over 
against the League of Nations? Why whv does the church expect 
so much of a political scheme which can do nothing else but bring 
ruin upon the world, and upon the church itself? 





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1 here are three reasons which explain her position. In the first 
place,—because of her unbelief. In the second place,—because of 
her misunderstanding. In the third place,—because the church be¬ 
came an organization of human sentimentality. 

‘Generally speaking, the church has discarded Scripture, which 
speaks loudly in the fact that she allowed undue influences to take 
the bible from the schools, instituting in its place the nefarious ideas 
and theories of evolution, pantheism and humanism, which shooting 
deep roots bloom now in the tree of “Goddenial” with its branches 
of unbelief and superstition. This lamentable church condition 
proves without doubt the truth of Jesus’ words so clearly and pre¬ 
cisely given in the parable of the ten virgins, depicting the very 
church of our days, or the “sleeping church.” 

Again, the church suffers an unwarranted and pitiful lack of 
understanding the Scriptures. The colossal, magnificent and beau¬ 
tiful structures of “dogmatical” castles, superfluously ornamented 
with wonderful decorated theoritical watchtowers, protected by deep 
wisdom trenches, lack, notwithstanding a clear insight in the balming 
words of a crucified Redeemer. Or, in plain words, the universities, 
colleges and clergy, inflamed by the glittering splendidness of an 
illustrious world listened to the idle prattle of an evil seducer who 
duly informed them that the mysterious prophecies of the old 
prophets could not be comprehended, nor was it possible that any 
one could understand the meaning of all symbolic Revelation, and 
it would therefore be very proper and to the glory of God to abstain 
from reading or teaching out of these books, for surely any one 
attempting a translation or an explanation would commit the crime 
of misrepresenting the Spirit, as many did who tried to understand 
these words. 

Of course, there is some semblance of truth in such reasoning, 
of course there is! There was truth also in the “apple-lie” in 
paradice. The church, again believing the arch-liar; is by this and 
other such false reasoning fallen into a position which makes her 
totally unfit to understand the significance of the political upheavels, 
the meaning of the social disarrangements, and the low ebb of the 
religious sentiment ruling the “Modern world,” proving by herself 
the truth of Jesus’ words spoken in the parable of the ten virgins, 
depicting to the “crossing of the t’s and the dotting of the i’s” the 
very condition of “the Sleeping Church.” 

It stands to reason that the conditions enumerated above are 
responsible for unwise and foolish unbiblical sentimentality. This 
sordid and worldly sentimentality seeks in a political plotting- 
together of the wicked, God-forgetting nations a Savior, who, under 
a melodious name, shall redeem the unsaved and unregenerated 
world by a mere moral improvement and betterment of living con¬ 
ditions, which surely proves the abnormal low spirited life of the 
church, and betokens her as indeed very soundly and proverbly 
asleep. 







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Needless to say this secret or open co-operation of the church 
with the world, regarding her stand concerning the political League 
of Nations, illustrates plainly the combination of the church and the 
world into one unity and uniformity showing unmistakable signs of 
the sleeping church, which condition is also clearly marked in the 
idea of The Interchurch World Movement of which we now intend 
to say a few words. 

THE INTER-CHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. 

When Jesus came and lived in the midst of his people, enlighten¬ 
ing them with the heavenly glory shining in the saving message, 
hardly anybody respected Him or paid any attention to His message, 
for He came as a beggar without earthly show and ambition, but 
when in our pretentious age of a boasted civilization another man 
should come with a wonderful human invention; the world full of 
ambition, and the church filled with overpowering wisdom would 
kneel with kind and unmingled admiration at his feet loudly pro¬ 
claiming the inauguration of a new era, for the man came with all 
the glitter of a beautiful framed message calculated to do homage 
to the god of the age. 

Yes, the so much heralded Interchurch World Movement, harp¬ 
ing a little too much upon the strings of the golden harps of god 
Mammon produces nevertheless delightful music to the ears of the 
souls of a very pious church. Its doctrine of humanism, with its 
bowing sweet grace toward the carpenter of Nazareth; is indeed a 
wonderful invention of human wisdom shrewdly arrayed to blind¬ 
fold the entire Christian church, trying to amaze if possible even 
Gods very elect. This movement with its polished words and exact 
sentences of elegant style couched in learned language is the very 
counterpart of true religion with its bloody cross its ugly message of 
sin, dead and hell so gloomly set forth in language devoid of sweet 
flowering, and yet, and yet nearly all of the manifold churches of the 
various denominations acted as if they heard the bells of heaven 
ringing, when god Mammon in reality was tinkling with the golden 
dollars. 

The inability of the church to “prove the spirits” is a sign of the 
times proclaiming as with a far sounding trumpet the most astonish¬ 
ing fact that the church is a very sleepy church indeed. 

Seemingly, in this movement, so generally responded to, looms 
the supposition, and is the fact established that the protestant 
churches are getting estranged from their own isms, and are now 
longingly waiting for the opportunity to unite again together under 
one head, which is the natural aim and the coveted glory of the very 
Interchurch World Movement. 

When we in a following chapter discuss the Anti-Christ, we can 
not fail to realize the significance of the idea of the One Head. 






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THE DRY WORLD MOVEMENT. 

Isaiah beholding the heathens devastating countries and cities, 
and noticing the consequences saw, in his day, a wineless and mirth¬ 
less time. With a brush glowing with colors he paints in that story, 
written in Isaiah 24 the first ten verses the prophetic history of the 
horrid European conflict with its ravished countries and cities, 
which now, with almost the rest of the world cry loudly for wine 
which flood is stopped where it once so freely ran. Do not we to 
day ask with Isaiah, Is there not a crying for wine in the streets ? 
And who, we ask, who is responsible for this sudden stop? and why, 
why all these prohibition-laws all over creation ? 

Did not the war kill the “vodka” of Russia? Is not the war, 
with its degenerating effects the cause of laws which forbid the use 
of wine which is not prohibited by God ? 

The prophet Amos living 2800 years ago saw in “the kine of 
Bashan” (drinking adulterers) this class of people rule the world. 
With all of the prohibition laws in effect and governing all; the 
question might be raised ;—Is this condition now eliminated ? 

Of all the acts of puny man to save self and the world; it might 
be granted that the “Dry Movement” is his best achievement, and 
at the same time one of his poorest. It is his poorest, because it 
nullifies the ordinances of the most acurate and liberal law-giver. It 
is his noblest deed, for he puts himself in fetters, where no fetters 
should and yet must be. 

It stands to reason that mankind, missing the true light of 
Scripture, and finding itself engaged to control the uncontrollable, 
lauds himself very much for the miracles he thinks he has wrought. 

I have already referred to the opinion of a lawyer, sabbath 
school superintendent, who saw in the dry movement the golden 
gates of paradise reopened, or as a Montana clergyman stated it, 
the rebirth of the world, preaching from St. John 3 :3. 

Seemingly this is the fixed idea of the church in general in re¬ 
gard to this world wide movement, and yet, I think, it takes quite 
some audacity to even mark this elaborate work of man as a “moral- 
improvement.” 

The church, without even delving into the roots of this bois¬ 
terous movement, acknowledges it, in good faith ; as a heavenly bent 
and sent impetus calculated to improve the spirit of man. The 
church being satisfied with an untried and very indefinite appearance 
rocks herself to sleep in the cradle of self-esteem. Indeed, the 
stand of the church over against this wonderful Dry Movement is a 
remarkable prove of the truth of Christ’s words spoken in the 
parable of the ten sleeping virgins. 

THE RIGHTEOUS WAR. 

Jesus in Mathew 24 speaking of the last days of Jerusalem, 
alludes in the seventh verse to the last days of the world. In this 









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verse he beholds nation against nation and people against people. 
Was ever prophecy fulfilled, surely this prophecy came to pass in 
our day. days without love, without devotion, and full of envy and 
bitterness, hatred and strife. The war, just fought, and yet burning 
in many countries, clutched nearly all peoples in its ugly claws, and 
strangled with its unhuman paws the other nations which did not 
fling themselves pell mell in this European caldron of hell hatred. 
Yet the church, with tearful eyes I say it, demurred against this 
clear defined prophecy. Jesus saw the unhuman struggle, the whole¬ 
sale slaughter of the white races, and He forwarned us, but we paid 
no heed, and followed merciless impulses. 

Daniel, six centuries before Christ, also saw this raw upheaval 
of the Christian nations. He saw it and gave the explanation. In 
the 43th verse of his second chapter, speaking of the “great image," 
(the monarchy-vision;) he says, “the ten toes of that image are 
partly clay and partly iron, and although they mingled themselves 
with the seed of man, they shall not cleave one to another, even as 
iron is not mixed with clay.' 7 

Many theories might be advanced as to the meaning of the iron 
and the clay, but we pass them by unnoticed as not pertaining to the 
subject under consideration, but there is one outstanding fact which 
attracts our attention, and that is that the two supreme powers 
fighting for the control of the world are in the main of different 
blood, one claiming Celtic and the other teutonic origin, and their 
respective royalties are indeed closely intermarried. 

And yet, as Daniel said: they did not mix, and they never will 
mix, and needless to sav that no League of Nations, how cunningly 
schemed together will ever mix these nor the other peoples into one 
kingdom of love, so sweetly predicted and so earnestly desired by 
the “Wise men of the World." No man shall ever be able to make 
God's word void and of no effect. 

In this iron and clay situation of the now so pious world sat 
the church as a Queen dreaming of a golden wedding with the 
merry world, which at a turn of the hand leaped upon its prey as a 
monstrous blood-thirsthy hyena. Would she now from her exalted 
throne extend a balming influence for good over the inhumanity of 
the inhuman and untrue world? Would she? Could she? No! 
Why not? Because in her foolhardy sleepiness she did not even stir 
when strange powers hovering over her made her discard the Bible 
even forbidding its presence in public schools. Ever since that 
regrettable moment her children were fed with the poison of evolu¬ 
tion, pantheism and humanism, which provoked a strange melody 
bereaving her of sense of honor, duty and obedience. 

Daniel perceiving the herculan struggle brought on by the un- 
mixable condition of the unhappy nations announces the last stage of 
the political world in the representation of the ten toes of that “great 
imagepicturing the apostacy of the religious world in the likeness 




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of the ten crowned horns upon his fourth beast which in due season 
give all their power to “the little horn" sprouting out of “democ¬ 
racy/ making him “king supreme.” 

i « 

1 hat the world to-day has reached the stage of the ten toes and 
the^ ten kings is perfectly clear, and is brilliantly shown in things 
political and religious. The entire Christian political world is seek¬ 
ing a “deliverer,” a man who is able to establish peace, order and 
equilibrium, and the religious world is planning unification of re¬ 
ligion, a clarification of the “isms” into one great oneness, which 
ultimately must centralize into one system, headed by a living rep¬ 
resentative of human beings. 

Being positively sure of the accuracy of our observations it is 
now of the utmost importance to see Daniel’s “mud and iron” theory 
in practical operation. Revelation 18 gives the key. It is com¬ 
mercialism. It is the god of trade governed by the god of finance 
who inflamed two of the mighty nations in unreasonable rivalry 
culminating in the most brutal conflict, which left the earth in a 
complete ruin in fearful abnormalities and instability and a prey of 
a host of evil mischievous spirits. 

Upon this topic books might be written, but we will refrain 
from dwelling upon this lamentable fact, rather would we in accord 
with our plans inquire into the position the church took regarding 
this Godless war, according to Christian laws condemned as in¬ 
human wholesale murder. 

In order to understand the manouvres of the church it is neces¬ 
sary to understand that our boasted civilization is derived from and 
maintained by three mighty powers. These powers are: Religion, 
“the tree,’ intellect and politics, “the branches.” 

In previous pages we beheld the political world as a very 
jealous world seeking to destroy itself by maiming and killing its 
very members ; and we therefore consider it needless to speak of it 
here. The “intellectual power" manifests itself in various worlds, 
for instance; in the literary world, the world of science, of culture, 
agriculture, industry, etc., etc., but the power shows itself at its very 
* best in the financial and commercial worlds. We saw more or less 
clearly how the last two named worlds were above all instrumental 
of bringing about the catastrophe of the world war, so we may now 
silently pass by this power to pay a little closer attention to the 
power of religion. 

It is clear that the “power of religion” is the sphere of the 
church. Scripture reveals that a Most Gracious God laments and 
bewails the fact that a sinful people once offered their, God's chil¬ 
dren, to the hideous god Moloch. No one needs to think that this is 
a bit of information to gratify our curiosity; nor is it intended to 
make known unto us the sinfulness of old Israel, no, but this his¬ 
torical information is imparted to guide us so that we should be¬ 
ware and not fall into the same malicious sin. 



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COMMERCIALISM 

Did the church heed the warning so graciously extended ? 

The world, at Israel’s time, was filled with a myriad of strange 
gods, which Israel adopted, forgetting their great helper, Jehovah. 

To-day, at our time, the splendid modern world abounds in a 
host of strange beautiful gods which are served night and day and 
unto which the Christians bring most willingly their sacrifices and 
offerings. The most excellent, the most pretentious one which is 
most strenuously worshipped is assuredly god Mammon. This is 
the god whom Christ calls “The Unrighteous Mammon.” 

It is plentifully shown, and almost anyone understands the fact 
that this sinister god of the Christians is solely responsible for the 
great European conflict. To satisfy his capricious notions the 
“World Politicians” applied the torch, the gun and the sword. And 
the church, being enlightened by Scripture, understanding the wick¬ 
edness of the age, calmy and balmy called this inhuman monstrous 
murderous fray “A Righteous War,” offering her sons upon the 
altar of “Unrighteous Mammon,” repeating the very actions 
of old hypocritical God-denying Israel. Old Israel brought her 
human offers to god Moloch, while “New Israel” sacrifies pious¬ 
ly her human offers to god Mammon. The “Banner of the Cross” 
for ages hanging in the “sanctuaries” was replaced by a “political 
insigna,” and in this action the church determinedly repeated the 
history written in Psalm 74. 

The church forgot her glorious Plead in heaven, and to please 
a miserable corrupt political world swaying to and fro to the behest 
and glory of Mammon she had the unheard of foolishness to call the 
killing of brothers, the homicide of the white race, “Righteous.” 

Is this not the most severe proof of “The Sleepiness of the 
Church ?” 

The church, according to her picture drawn by Jesus in the 
Book of Revelation has now almost reached the end of the last stage 
of apostacy. It is generally conceded by church authorities that the 
church, proceeding from the exalted stage of “Ephesus” has since 
degenerated until to-day we find her in the likeness of the church of 
“Laodicea.” 

According to Revelation 3 :14-19 this church is wretched, miser¬ 
able, poor, blind and naked, and yet she vainly imagines herself to 
be rich and in want of nothing. 

On account of this pitiful condition her heavenly Lord utters 
the fearful words “I will spew you out of my mouth,” because, con¬ 
cerning Him and His cause; she is hot nor cold. Because her 
heart goes out after the lusts of the sinful eye and after the shining 
things of the “fast fleeting” Modern World, rather than after the 
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Revelation 18, reveals the ultimate end and the consequent re¬ 
sults of this unwarranted condition and draws her as the “wicked 
city of Babylon.” This city of confusion is represented as fallen, 
fallen from her once apparently glorious estate into a “habitation of 
devils, a hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and 
hateful bird.' Furthermore the chapter sums up her foul “For¬ 
nication, her delicious living, living as a “queen’’ which is followed 
by her doom, death, famine, fire and destruction, of which her lover, 
the sinful world is the sorrowful witness. 

Men are not able to draw such an accurate, such a very rep¬ 
resentative picture. Men, dead in sin cannot fully comprehend the 
ugliness of the untenable situation. Is the church able to realize her 
miserable condition . J Is not she rather satisfied with things the way 
they are, and does she not fling this picture far aw 7 ay from her, 
claiming it refers more or less to future as vet unborn ages? Does 
not she, in her reaching out for the glowing things of the modern 
world, fitly represents the man in the wilderness who is extremely 
happy and content with running after a “mirage ?” 

Do you think it possible that God made a mistake and drew 7 a 
wrong misleading picture, and is trying to scare the church with a 
strange tale? 

Look and behold for yourself. 

As it seems to me, the prophetic history of these two chapters 
besides many other utterances in Scripture fit us and our day to a 
“T.” The evidence is clear, w 7 ell defined, and very convincing. 

We have more than once said, or alluded to that the church has 
lost God’s own Word. And, what wdsdom can she have ? The 
sleeping church allowed strangers to take the Bible from their 
schools, replacing the book of wisdom, by the debasing teachings of 
evolution, pantheism and humanism. The church, now T using the 
scriptures for its own dictations and misconceptions and misgivings, 
in imitation of her friend, the modern world, finds numerous in¬ 
ventions wdth which she hopes to better the world. 

To enumerate a few 7 of these inventions the following will 
suffice: Science, Socialism, Politics, Democracy, Paperism, Budget 
system. Million Dollar Funds, etc., etc. The simple Bible calls 
these things with their parents, evolution, pantheism and humanism, 
devils, foul spirits and unclean birds, notwithstanding which the 
church is very pious and regards these strange things indeed very 
tenderly. 

Yes. these w 7 onderful things are now indeed the hobies of the 
clergy, and although they are nothing else but pure worldly affairs, 
they simply make them just as pious as they are by putting Christ's 
name, as a handle, in front of their wonderful inventions. These 
things, and many besides them; are summed up and called in Scrip¬ 
ture : “Commercialism.” And this, commercialism, is the marriage- 
tie uniting the dreaming church with the pious world. 







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It is not necessary to go into detail. Any one meditating upon 
the enumerated items will readily be induced to grant that they have 
nothing in common with the “spiritual kingdom of God,” of which 
Christ speaks, and of which He is the establshed King. “The Chris¬ 
tian must be the salt of the earth, that does not mean that he must 
become THE EARTH. He also must be, the light upon a candle¬ 
stick, which means not that he must become THE CANDLESTICK. 
He must be the city upon the mountain which does not mean that he 
must become THE MOUNTAIN. 

The church, as we have shown, sits as a queen, in want of 
nothing, being very rich indeed. Jesus says: “I have not where to 
lie my head.” And, Paul nor any other apostle ever preached a 
DOLLAR SERMON, as is very evident in the following quotations 
of Scripture, namely: Acts 20:33, 2 Cor. 12 verses 14 to 16 inclusive 
and many other places. The church of that period, poor as to the 
world, but rich in God, is changed into a church poor as to God, but 
rich as to the world. She is now turned backward and lives again as 
she lived during the prophetic ages, as is plainly shown in her ap¬ 
pearance and in her actions which correspond with the action of 
these ages, as is written in Micah 3:11, Ezekiel 22:26 to 31, Isaiah 
28:8, 10, 15, 20, Colossians 3:2, James 1 :27, and chapter 4:4. Jude 
16, Math 24:15 and 2 Timothy 3:1 to 7, and many other correspond¬ 
ing proofs of total collapse and utter delinquency. 

Sure, the signs of the times are plenteous round about us, and 
no sign speaks louder than the sign of the “sleeping church,” which 
was warned by Jesus, and by Him directed to watch, watch! 


DEMOCRACY. 


Three hundred years ago, the pilgrim fathers, after a sojourn of 
13 years in Holland, landed at Plymouth, and called this broad and 
good country theirs, considering it the land of freedom and liberty, 
for here, as no where else were they able to serve God according to 
the diction of Scripture and their conscience'. 

As soon as possible they established schools with the bible, and 
elected out of their midst capable men who were also known on ac¬ 
count of their piety. Their laws were laws in full accord with Scrip¬ 
ture, and their religious needs were attended to by pastors guided by 
the Holy Spirit. This was the beginning of the great American 
Republic. Humble, pious, righteous, just. 

We, their sons, delight in bringing this elegant picture before 
our mind, but, can we, as mighty as we are now find ourselves in it? 
Have we not departed from their ways? Can we even trace an 
inkling of semblance? Do not our endeavors differ widely from 
theirs ? 

Assuredly their rulers sought light and wisdom by God in 
difficulties besetting them. Can we say that of our rulers? Was 
not their government, in a great measure very like unto the govern- 




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ment of Moses? Was the regime of Moses a theocracy or a 
democracy? Was it not a theocracy? Had not their form of 
government more the appearance of a theocracy than of a democ¬ 
racy ? Are we so much besides the truth when we hold that our 
fathers’ government was a very strong imitation of theocracy? I 
think, any fair minded man will be able to see a mighty difference 
between the government of to-day and the government of our 
fathers day. They in earnest felt themselves ruled by God, and 
ruled themselves again by and through Him, while present office 
holders rather incline to honor themselves, or the half plus one who 
elevafed them to their exalted position. 

Democracy is the rule of the majority. “People's rule.” Dem¬ 
ocracy does not seek a king, nor would it honor a king. Democracy 
has nothing in common with aristocracy, they are arch enemies 
seeking each others dethronement, as was taught and practised and 
expressed in the world renowned war slogan “Make the world a safe 
place for democracy.” 

How far the great world war has succeeded politically in 
abolishing the kings of the earth is not a topic which I undertook to 
discuss, but a little closer inspection into the religious aim is worth 
our attention and reflection. 

Democracy, as it appears hates the king and will never grant 
authority to a king. Is this true politically, it is also true religiously, 
and therefore we may as well stand amazed and aghast at the hidden 
intention shrewdly and lewdly embodied in its purpose. The church 
ought to be wide awake in regard -to the hidden aim of democracy, 
and yet we hear her boast of a “christian democracy,” allowing 
Christ to be eternal KING, while she, the church, is a thorough 
democracy. And one who is not bereft of reason will notice that 
the two ideas are in flagrant disharmony with each other. No, not 
any amount of philosophy how deftly exhibited and shrewdly ar¬ 
ranged will ever be able to harmonize these two bitter enemies. 

The “rule" of the church is in its foundation theocratic, al¬ 
though all strange ideas and wonderful human inventions have run 
riot with her true manifestation. 

If anything on earth is in “God's Kingdom" for sure the church 
must he in it. Now that is no democracy, -but a kingdom in which 
Christ Jesus is supreme King and Lord, and if this is true then it is 
impossible that the church can be a democracy, Christian or other¬ 
wise. 

The creat war has established the fact that democracv seeks to 
conquer the world at large bringing it together into one supposedly 
solid confederation, handled by a “super government” which nat¬ 
urally is headed again by one supreme superman. 

Seeing this idea now reaching maturity in the world program, 
we wonder what the bible has to say about it, if it does say anything 
concerning it. 





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Reading the 28th chapter of Isaiah our attention is particularly 
drawn to verses 15, 18, 19 and 20 which relate the story of Israel s 
confederacy with Egypt, in which “covenant'’ Israel totally denied 
Jehovah. The result's of this madness are clearly pictured before 
our attention, and vividly expressed in the statement that “the bed 
was shorter than the man.” In this dark colored picture looms the 
beautiful “peace palace at the Hague" with its destroying-war 
slogan but above all the “Godless League of Nations” with its com¬ 
ing “overflowing scourge." Could anybody draw the lines of present 
conditions better than God laid it before us? But who will Relieve 
this? The church? No, not she. 

TENDENCY TO DENY TRUTH. 

This League of Nations, before it becomes a grant compact, 
will have to change its laws and rulings to accommodate some great 
peoples who at the present more or less balk at this grand political 
scheme. It shall come, Rev. 17:12, 13, 17 and not succeed, Dan 
2 :43 and it shall be “crowned democracy,”' that is; one man shall be 
the recognized head of the entire confederated Christian world, rul- 
ing as president, receiving honor from nominal kingdoms and re¬ 
publics, Rev 17:12, 13, 17. In a preceding chapter we have quoted 
the seven names wherewith Scripture identifies the “superman” of 
the world. 

And how does the church act overagainst this coming man 
whose preparations are so clearly manifest in our days of recognized 
instability? Exactly as the church did at the time of Antiochus 
Epiphanus, type of Anti-Christ, opening the gates of Jerusalem for 
his treacherous assault. 

Isaiah laments and bewails the fact that Israel lost the true 
knowledge of Jehovah, serving idols, playing the harlot living in 
intercourse with her enemies, the heathen people round about her. 

Old Israel is the very example of New Israel, and carnal 
Israel is the representation of spiritual Israel. Did carnal Israel 
want none of the in “flesh” appearing Christ ; neither does spiritual 
Israel want anything of the spiritually revealed Christ. Old Israel 
did not recognize the Christ, and New Israel has also failed miserably 
to identify Him. Was carnal Israel exceptionally over-pious, 
spiritual Israel also shines in extra-ordinary piousness. Did old 
Israel bow for heathen and “home” made gods; New Israel over¬ 
reaches itself in honoring hordes of strange gods. 

Scripture states very plainly that the false priesthood beguiled 
Israel, leading it astray. God has also very plainly spoken and re¬ 
vealed unto us that spiritual Israel is beguiled, and led astray by men 
who call themselves servants of the living God, and who are in 
reality, and do embody the false priests of whom Christ speaks, 








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when He says: “Many shall say: Here is the Christ, or there is 
the Christ, believe thou them not." They are the seducers, the lying 
spirits. No book of the Bible speaks so plain about the lying and the 
denying spirits as the book of Revelation. 

Reading Rev. 16:12-16, we notice what happens under the 
“sixth” vial, which corresponds exactly with Rev. 9:13-21, “the 
sixth trumpet” with the effect of Rev. 13:16. 

Rev. 16:12-16 calls our attention to an angel pouring his “vial” 
upon the great river Euphrates, which becomes dried up leaving a 
passage for the kings of the east. This river represents “the stream 
of life “GOD'S WORD,” which becomes dried up, an expression for 
“worthless,” simply illustrating that the church and the world will 
pay no attention to Scripture, and that they both will sink into inl¬ 
and disbelief, (which is assuredly a most accurate picture of our 
present God-denying days.) Now, because the Christians, so called, 
discard God, He also discards them and lets them, as the white races 
murder each other, which naturally paves the way for the combined 
yellow races to conquer their territory, being later on gathered to 
battle even against God Himself. 

As plain as Scripture reveals this to whomsoever God grants 
“open” eyes, so stark-dark is the same Scripture to a very pious but 
very unrighteous world and to a very sleepy and very materialistic 
church. This very idea is gloomingly set forth in the 13th verse of 
the same 16th chapter, for we read: “three unclean spirits, like 
frogs, came out of the mouth of the dragon, (satan) out of the 
mouth of the beast, (Political State), and out of the mouth of the 
false prophet, (false church system, “Anti-Christ”). These spirits 
are the spirits of devils, lying spirits. The spirit out of the mouth 
of the dragon informs the people that they shall rule in the place of 
God. (Humanism). The spirit out of the mouth of the beast, 
pours so balmingly into the ears of the dull, easily misled, carnally 
minded people that they shall be happy in an everlasting peace 
brought about by an all powerful, most excellent and glorious 
“League of Nations,” established in a most gracious and pretentious 
“democracy.” The spirit out of the mouth of the false prophet, pro¬ 
claims the actions of a world dead in sin and in crime led on by “the 
man murderer” into a frantic wholesale slaughter, as very “right¬ 
eous,” indeed. 


As said, neither one, the church nor the world, will believe 
Scripture, even when their own eyes behold these things becoming- 
history. for these three mentioned spirits have completely deluded 
them in regard to the reality. The church, which ought to heed the 
words of her heavenly Head, is absolutely opposed to the belief that 
Jesus in Mathew 24:7 spake of this inhuman struggle, the world 
war. She offers the excuse that Christ merely alludes in this verse 
to “wars and rumor of wars.” 




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Therefore, when these lying spirits prepare the church and the 
world, man and beast, hell and heaven against the battle of that 
great day of God Almighty, spoken of in Rev. 16:14 and depicted in 
Rev. 19:17-21, then the church will perceive the “Righteous Judge” 
coming as a “thief in the night” Rev. 16:15, which is proof that the 
church is not prepared to meet her Lord and Master, although He 
continually admonishes her to watch, watch! 

Jesus, when with “His people” complained to them that they 
could not read “the signs of the times.” History repeats itself. 
Was that severe word of Christ true at the time He personally 
dwelled in the midst of His church, sorry to acknowledge it, but it 
is just as true to-day, yes hundredfold more true than at that time. 
At Jesus’ time there were Anna's and Simeon’s in the temple, and 
assuredly so shall it be at His approaching return. 

God grant the reader and the writer the glory to be with these 
Anna's and Simeon's. But to-day we lament the fact that the church 
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CHAPTER SEVEN 

A Very Learned World. 


For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, 
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much 
wantonness, those that zvere clean escaped from them 
who live in error. 2 Peter 2:18. 

How that they told you there should be mockers in 
the last tune, who should walk after their own ungodly 
lusts. Jude 18. 

And when they heard these sayings, they were full 
of zurath, and cried out, saying Great is Diana of the 
Ephesians. Acts 19:28. 

And he shall speak great words against the most 
High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, 
and think to change times and laws. Daniel 7:23. 

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the 
book, even to the time of the end; many shall run to and 
fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Dan 12:4. 

For the earth shall be filled with the knozvledge of 
the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. 
Habakkuk 2:14. 

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is 
called God, or that is zvorshipped; so that he as God sit- 
teth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is 
God. 2 Thessalonian 2:4. 

I zvill ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will 
be like the most High. Isaiah 14:14. 

And he docth great wonders, so that he maketh fire 
conic down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 
Rev 13:13- 

These have one mind, and shall give their power and 
strength unto the beast. Rev. 17:13. 


It is to-day explained that prophecy can be understood only 
when it is fulfilled. This sounds very plausable and is therefore 
considered, the truth, but fact is, it is a “lullaby” which puts the 
church to sleep. The doctrine preached from the pulpit, that we can 
not understand the old prophets, nor comprehend intelligently Reve¬ 
lation is a nefarious lie founded by the father of the LIE. True, we 





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cannot grasp the finest details; but as to the general meaning God 
Himself reveals to us that in the latter days “many shall run to and 
fro” and “knowledge shall be increased,” the very words God speaks 
to Daniel when He says: “But thou O Daniel, shut up “THE 
WORDS,” and “SEAL” the book, which simply means, according 
to my view: that not a “t” should be left uncrossed, nor an “i” un¬ 
dotted, and that the wise should beforehand understand and see by 
his “directions" as clear as he did, yea even better for God says to 
Daniel also: “But the “WISE” shall understand, even, “the times of 
the end” “dark” and closed to thee although thou sawest it. Dan 
12:4. 10, 8 and 9. 

jesus Himself complains to His people of His people, for they 
(like the people of to-day) did not understand the signs of the 
times, for they were not WISE, but ‘“wicked” who, none of them, 
shall understand. Dan 12:10. Thanks to our God, there are to-day 
some Simeon’s and Anna’s left in the temple, and they are the Wise, 
even tho the “learned world” does not consider them so. 

Jesus said to His church. Watch. Watch! But how shall we 
watch when “the learned" world preaches: “You cannot understand, 
YOU can NOT SEE 

I do not wish to say or even to suppose that we are able to 
comprehend all things in detail. To-day, more than ever before, we 
see prophecy going into history, and the magnificance of the thing 
is for the WISE of such a significant order that he is wondering 
extremely at the fearful signs of the times. 

Among the many signs of the times the sleeping church and the 
pious world, both so extraordinary learned, are conspicuous. 

In a previous chapter we have spoken about the “pious” world, 
and now we intend to call your attention for a few moments to the 
“Learned World.” 

Knowledge is manifested in two different spheres: Religion and 
Intellect. The culmination of intellect is: Humanism, climbing 
above the clouds upon the throne of God. And the indeed religious 
sentiment is beautifully expressed in the words of St. Peter: “Thou 
art the Christ the Son of the living God." The one honors man, the 
other God. 

Now the true religious men are God's blessed people, and among 
them you find the Wise on whose account the days of tribulation 
shall be shortened. These are the persecuted ones, the “pariah’s” 
of the church and of the world. They do not belong to the great 
and the pretentious of the world, they are the despised, the neglected 
the unconsidered ones, men without glory, very insignificant, 
strangers in church and in the world. Notwithstanding which they 
are the wise, the prudent, but their wisdom and knowledge is of no 
avail, of no account anywhere. They understand the “Signs of the 
times,’’ but like their Master because of this they are not wanted but 
derided, and no matter how much and how long they may holler; 
they cannot arouse the church out of its sinful drowsiness. 


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It is not our intention to stand still by this deplorable condition, 
which is already discussed in previous chapters, but we do intend to 
say a few things in regard to “intellectualisnr” as it appears in the 
realm of “The Learned World/ 5 

Assuredly, the “Modern World’ 5 possesses a grand total of con¬ 
spicuous “beings” (minds) who render it great and magnificent. 
( )ut of all these various beings, bewildering as they are in their 
brightness, not one has reached such an unmeasurable altitude as 
“intellect”' which annunciates itself as the queen of the universe. 

J he world of intellect might be divided into two branches. The 
most conspicuous and brilliant branch reveals itself in materialism, 
while the other, in a softer light shows its splendid grandeur in the 
more guarded and deeper spiritual atmosphere. The one seeks the 
glitter of the world trying to hold it all in one hand, and the other 
deliberately attempts to conquer the spiritual world. 

More or less broad we have discussed the materialistic in¬ 
clination of the modern world and do not judge it expedient to say 
more here, and therefore we will see what the other branch offers 
us as a topic of discussion. 

This branch of knowledge, in which the spirit is actually en¬ 
gaged to harvest wisdom, which “gladdens 55 the soul, the inward 
man more than the outward man; might be seen sprouting out into 
smaller branches and twigs. Remember however that either branch 
or twig; it must show its lustre into the “outer” world, otherwise it 
would be considered dead. 

To enumerate a few of these branches which are rooted in the 
great branch of intellect, the following will suffice: Philosophy, 
Science, Culture, Higher Criticism, Theology, and others. 

In these branches man tries to comprehend God, self and nature. 
Needless to say, he also shall vainly imagine to reach his coveted 
goal, at which time he shall declare: “I am God." Who can stand 
before me? God gave man at least six thousand years to again find 
what he so pitifully lost in Eden. If we now, at the end of the ages, 
look round about us we find that man thinks he has almost reached 
his goal, being able to make peace with a consolidation of men who 
completely ignore God. instituting themselves in the place of God. 

But let us pay a little closer attention to these branches. The 
first branch which invites our observation is: Philosophy. 

What is philosophy? It is an attempt to comprehend the in¬ 
comprehensible. A forcing into something which cannot be fath¬ 
omed. A reaching after the unapproachable. Where is philosophy 
recognized? In the unreal, in the vain imagination, in the mist of 
beautiful mingled colors. What is its aim? Uncovering the wisdom 
of God! Shall it be successful? Yes, at least so considered by it¬ 
self and its friends. Does the Bible speak with terms of philosophy? 
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or explain His being. Was Christ a philosopher? Incontrovertible. 
No! Can a Christian be a philosopher? No, never! Why not? lie- 
cause it is a very keen knife in the hands of shrewd men who skill¬ 
fully use it to cut the meat from the bone, preserving the meat in 
unsound recesses, throwing the dried bones to the people. 

The Bible does not honor philosophy but acknowledges it upon 
its. pages. Satan, the great philosopher, appealing to innocent man¬ 
kind in Paradise said: “Your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as 
gods.” The fall was the consequence of this bit of philosophy. 
Since then men became philosophers, and after a period of 6C00 
years of philosophy; we hear him upon the last pages of Scripture 
say: “Who is able to make war with him?” Rev 13:4. Is man now 
nearer his goal than at his first attempt to be as GOD ? He says: 
O yes: The world is growing better day by day. This growing 
better is nicely expressed in the following poetry by Mrs. Ella 
Wheeler Wilcox: 

If you glance at history’s pages 
In all lands and eras known; 

You will find the vanished ages 
Far more wicked than our own. 

As you scan each word and letter, 

You will realize it more 
That the world to-day is better 
Than it ever was before. 

But the spirit of error manifest in philosophy which edifies man 
is nowhere shown plainer than in the Godless song of “Man” which 
giveth full tribute to the “Modern World.” This Satan's creed of 
the Deity of man, is a production of the Harvard University in a 
poet of the class of 1908. We only quote a few lines of one of the 

verses. “O holy spirit—O heart of man:.No god for a gift. 

God gave us, Mankind alone must save us.” 

This horrid lie is unadulterated philosophy, which is the soul of 
Humanism, pure and simple. 

Science might be divided into two distinct parts. The one seek¬ 
ing the material, and the other denying the very existence of the 
material. The last one calls itself “Christian Science.” This “move¬ 
ment” with its sister “Spiritualism” dwells in the religious sphere. 
Christian Science is conceived in hell and delivered upon the earth 
by a divorced woman. Satan, for reasons best known to himself 
prefers to use women rather than men to reach his end which is also 
significantly shown in Spiritualism. The weaker sex was the me¬ 
dium which he used in Paradise, and never forgetting his first suc¬ 
cessful attempt to seduce men ; he uses her throughout the ages, 
following the same course and usually with the same successful 
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l hristian Science, brought upon the earth by a woman, denies 
the material, and our own material body, to have an excuse for deny¬ 
ing Christ, whom it professes by using His glorious name as a part 
of the name of this hell concocted lie, and according to St. Peter, 
this Christ denying Christian science is a sign of the times, and an 
identification mark of Anti-Christ, and anti-christian doctrine and 
spirit. After Mrs. Eddy has done awav with the living body of 
Christ, she denies the spirit of Christ by elevating her queer inven¬ 
tion a book called, “The Key of Scriptures” above the Word of 
v God, defrauding it out of all its healing elements by applying her 
own lies and her own explanations calculated to mislead miserable, 
sinful and unbelieving man. 


Spiritualism tries to unfold before the eyes of man what cannot 
be disclosed, connecting the real with the unreal, the living with the 
dead, and the dead with the living. This ghastly practise was in¬ 
dulged in by the heathens, but God strongly prohibited old Israel to 
pay any attention whatsoever to debasing influences of evil spirits. 
God condemns any and all unlawful connections with sinister evil 
spirits, and yet, understanding the godlessness of the last days, He 
informs His people that in these days strange, inhuman scandalous 
intercources with devils and evil spirits shall be practised by them 
who boast of a Christian civilization. And is this horrid and wicked 
intercourse with evil spirits not in evidence in every hamlet, village 
and city of the entire globe? Man may esteem such unsanctified 
notions and inventions learned, God promises that He shall seek 
such things, awarding the practisers the just judgment of a Sodom 
and Gomorra-Culture. 


Culture is the progressive movement of improving the human 
mind, intending to perfect it, elevating man and his environment. 
The human mind is capable of developing along certain lines unto a 
certain limit. All minds are not alike. Some seek improvements in 
the moral, some in the intellectual, and some in the religious con¬ 
ditions of men. It is self-evident that our consideration constricts us 
to intellectual conditions. 

With the intellect the human mind grasps, or tries to grasp, 
what passes before it. The human mind does not know God, cannot 
find Him, and could never comprehend Him, Who created it. Not 
being able, nor willing to acknowledge the exalted glory of the Most 
High, it builds and erects for itself imaginary heavens, which it fills 
with human made torches, declaring and unfolding to the unaware 
that these torches are the true and original lamps which illuminate 
the pathway of glorious mankind. This explains why even so 
called “religious” journals adhere to the theory that culture seeks 
God, in opposition to tfie avowed doctrine of the old, and now dis- 





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carded fathers. Culture does not seek God but self. No greater 
proof for this statement than the great world war, which scattered 
the evidence throughout vain France, where the canon leveled the 
proud glories raised by culture and again demolished by culture, 
applied from a different quarter. Culture seeks self, and therefore, 
the superman will be its realization. Culture, needless to say, will 
brag and boast of an improving world which from the outset is 
nothing but a contemptible falsehood, calculated to deceive “the 
Learned World.” 


Higher criticism is a branch of the tree of Philosophy. It is 
the living foolishness of men personified. It is the folly of men 
which have set up themselves to judge God. They take the unwar¬ 
ranted liberty to dispute with God, undertaking the responsibility 
to correct Gods revealed truth, replacing it entirely, or improving it 
partly with their stunted errors, which they consider indisputable 
proofs of wisdom. They not believing the act of creation, do ex¬ 
plain the wonderful existence of the universe by the atom and sell 
with their theory their own glorious being as by-products of mon¬ 
keys. They, being seduced by the father of the lie catalogue the 
miracles of the prophets and of Christ as mere natural causes of 
nature, or in case a miracle cannot be explained away by this rule, 
they simply classify it among the “nice stories" or cunningly 
framed lies. 


Theology seeks to understand the relation between God and 
man, and the relation of God to the universe. As in the days of 
Elijah and Elisha theology is taught and studied in schools, colleges 
and universities. An uneducated Christian believing the Scriptures, 
more or less perceiving the greatness of God in His manifold mani¬ 
festations, but not attending a school of learning is not considered 
a theologian even tho he may grasp the vastness of Gods attributes 
better than a theologian. Theologians are those who teach or learn 
in a school of wisdom regardless whether they believe in God, have 
faith in Him, or do deny and despise Him and hate Him with a 
complete hatred. 

The doctrine of theology can be divided into five branches, 
namely, Cosmological, Anthological, Telelogical, Moral and His¬ 
torical. Theology, it seems to me, instructs the student along the 
lines of scholarly and speculative forms. Theology moves in the 
higher spheres of spiritual life, trying to comprehend the “Supreme 
Being" as much as possible, imparting the gathered knowledge to the 
spiritual minded, improving and benefitting them, and therefore, 
theology is divine, and the praetisers, after a course of successful 
study become the ministers of the gospel and are also called “di¬ 
vines.” 







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No doubt but theology is divine; and an inquirer after God. 
I heologians also are divine striving to comprehend God and His 
work, but the question might be asked, how many do actually find 
God ? And how many theological schools, colleges and universities 
do recognize the God Whom they pretend to seek ? How many 
pulpits do yet glory in theology of which the living God is the 
center ? T he writer, worshipping in the sanctuaries was many a 
time overpowered by the not so pleasant thought expressed in 
”\ irdii Divine Minister non scholea sed vitae discimus.” (We do 
not learn for the school but for life). 

Looking over the “pious” world to-day absorbed in learning and 
wisdom, and swaying to and fro, so ambitious and yet so miserable 
at a loss concerning its own affairs, or political and social conditions, 
we are not surprised at all with our observations, for we behold the 
source of wisdom and the spring of learning poisoned by a doctrine 
of evil spirits which conquer the theological schools, colleges and 
universities. It is not God any more Who is sought in these springs 
of wisdom and wells of culture, but it is puny man who is sought, 
who is found, who is raised upon the shaky pedestal of vain glory 
and crowned with the unholy halo of glistering dirt. Is there to-day 
yet a theological school in the land which centers its teachings 
around a poor miserable sinner and a rich Christ? Is there to-day 
yet one school which is not enstrangled in the snares of hell founded 
“humanism ?” 

And yet these schools, colleges and universities boast in their 
glory, in their wisdom, and in their intellectual misconceptions, and 
their professors and doctors boast of their Godliness and at the same 
time detest the humble brother who does not fall for their trickery. 

Real theology makes the real theologian humble. It is im¬ 
possible to be otherwise. With a few exceptions to-day we find the 
theologians a very cold blooded, a heartless and a very proud class 
of men. 

I do not dispute the fact that theology is seeking. Yes it seeks. 
It scrutinizes the mountain of Palestine, as in the days of Elijah and 
Elisha. It seeks! Strong men are out, seeking in one accord the 
body of Elijah,—which they shall never find. 

Yes for sure. The great wise king Solomon understood things 
to perfection, and upon the utmost peak of his God given wisdom ; 
he proclaims: Lo ; this have I found, that God hath made man up¬ 
right ; but they have sought out many inventions. Ecclesiastes 7:20 
and it seems to me in our days they have found the brightest of 
their inventions, for what is as bright as Humanism? 

It is very plain the learned world has discarded God’s word, and 
God Himself inquires, “What wisdom can they have?” 




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CHAPTER EIGHT 

A World With A Dual-God. 


And they worshipped the dragon which gave poivcr 
unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying: 
Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war 
with him? Rev 13:4. 

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilder¬ 
ness; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, 
full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten 
horns. And the woman which thou sawcst is that great 
city zvhich rcigneth over the kings of the earth. Rev 

17:3, iS. 

Bezvare of dogs, bczvarc of evil workers, beware of 
the concision. Phillippians 3:2. 

Their land also is full of idols; they zvorship the 
work of their own hands, that zvhich their own fingers 
have made; And the mean man boweth down and the 
great man humblcth himself, therefore forgive them not. 
Isaiah 2:8, 9. 

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and 
women rule over them. Isaiah 3:12. 

Proclaim ye this amoung the gentiles; Prepare war, 
wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war drazv 
near; let them come up. Joel 3:9. . 

And for this cause God shall send them strong de¬ 
lusion, that they should believe a lie. 2 Thessalonians 
2:11. 


In previous chapters we beheld the modern world as being in¬ 
deed very beautiful, very materialistic, very pious and very learned. 
Such a world is reasonably under the direction, supervision and 
guidance of a generally recognized supreme ruler, honored and 
exalted everywhere. 

Throughout the vanished ages this god of the “Modern World" 
has been worshipped, but the oblations offered him cannot be com¬ 
pared with the sacrifices extended him in the age in which we live, 
the age which is unexcelled in glorifying the diety made by men and 
set up by them in the temples of their Christless Christian civiliza¬ 
tion. No there is no god like unto Mammon. No there is no g:od 
like him in the entire heavens of this so wondrous and marvelous 
modern world created to the glory of extremely inventiveness man¬ 
kind. 






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No god like unto god Mammon. At his 'bidding the god of war, 

( 1 hor) thunders forth with his colossal hammer smashing the pillars 
of honor which mankind had deftly erected to its own corrupted 
glory. At the calling of god Mammon the god of trade (Hermes) 
sets fire to the gathered crops, destroying the food of the poor, 
plunging the poor world into the tribulations of hunger and pesti¬ 
lence. At his persuasion the great world-politicians corrupt them¬ 
selves in the secret chambers of diplomacy, conniving at each other’s 
duplicity, covetously dividing contemplated spoil. Before god Mam¬ 
mon bows politics, sways intellectualism and humbles religion. Up¬ 
on his golden throne he rules with a golden scepter the earth from 
its uttermost extremity to the furthermost limits thereof. No, there 
is no god like unto him under the canopy of the glorious heavens. 

This most beautiful but extremely cold and loveless god steers 
his goldbedecked vehicle along different pathways and avenues of 
traffic. Here he travels along the lustrous highways of finance, there 
he wallows in the avenues of trade, and yonder he steals the heart of 
the earth, burning and melting it in the fires of industry, converting 
it into a harvest of gold. At other places he is pre-occupied with 
sowing jealousy, hatred and malice. Here again he is busily en¬ 
gaged in transporting the “lie” into the illuminous carriage of the 
'“truth” and yonder he apprehends the crown of religion distorting 
it with his sacrilegious hands into a helmet with which he seeks to 
cover his own head intending thereby to translate himself into an 
angel of light. 

This is the plain portrait of the god of the “Modern World.” 
This god has conquered the world, which to-day especially dares to 
call itself Christian and civilized. 

For this god kneels the rich and the poor also brings him hom¬ 
age. This is the god honored by the irreligious, by the Godcleniers, 
by the scoffers, by the sacrilegious, by the vandals, by the vampires, 
by the ungodly, by the haters of God, by the soul destroyers, by the 
wicked, by the liars and by the demoralizers, and for this god kneels 
the hypocrite, the pharisee, the seemingly pious in the temple, the 
putup clergy, and the unsuspecting layman, the business man and the 
church goer. Yes indeed, god Mammon is the god of the Modern 
World, and no other god of the plural gods of the modern world is 
like unto this god in cunning and in duplicity. 









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CHAPTER NINE 

The World Ruled by God Mammom. 


This I know also that in the last days perilous times 
shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, 
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, despisers of those 
that are good, traitors, lovers of pleasures more than of 
Cod, having a form of godliness but denying the power 
thereof •—But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and 
worse. 2 Timothy 3:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13. 

But chiefly them that walk after the desk in the lust 
of uncleanness, and despise government. 2 Peter 2:10. 

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your 
miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are 
corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your 
gold and silver is cankered, and shall eat your flesh as it 
were fire. Ye have heaped treasures together for the 
last days, behold, the hire of the labourers who have 
reaped down your fields which is of you kept back with 
fraud, cried, Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and 
been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in the 
day of slaughter, ye have condemned and killed the just. 
James 5:1-6. 

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the 
mountain of Samaria which oppress the poor, which 
crush the needy, zvhich say to their masters, Bring, and 
let us drink. Amos 4:1. 

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have 
defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name 
to the ground. Psalm 74:7. 

Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteous¬ 
ness delivereth from death. Proverbs 11:4. 

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie 
in glory, every one in his own house. Isaiah 14:18. 

Howl ye ships of Tarshish; for your strength is laid 
waste. Isaiah 23:14. 


Jesus calls this god of the “modern world,” god Mammon, un¬ 
righteous. He must have most accurately based His assertion upon 
circumstancial evidence gathered during His cross country journeys. 
No doubt, but rumors of the ugly practice of this god must have 
reached Him as well, and we can grant Him a masterly knowledge of 
the history of the world, which includes a complete understanding 
of the overawing sway of god Mammon. 





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THE MODERN WORLD 


I do not think it possible that any person would try to contradict 
this most accursing testimony. Yes, indeed; Mammon is the 
“unrighteous god," and Scripture is very correct when it says: “The 
love of money is the root of all evil.” 

That even heathen people knew of and felt this truth, before it 
was spoken, is manifested in the old history of the Roman dem¬ 
ocracy, for they had upon their statute books laws which prohibited 
the possession of more than five hundred acres by one person. 

God knowing mankind to be easily corrupted by the perverting 
and blinding influence of riches sought to protect His own chosen 
people against the calamities which must befall a nation which is not 
restricted by just and honorable laws regarding the appropriation 
and hoarding of riches. Therefore Jehovah directed Moses to im¬ 
press upon the minds of the people the necessity of keeping the laws 
of the sabbatic year, which God gave unto Israel as a system in 
which it was possible that the rich could ever become “over” rich, 
and the poor, likewise, ever become “over” poor, so that no ex¬ 
tremely rich nor poor could be found in the dominion of Israel. No 
doubt, no wise law giver ever gave more just and right laws to a 
people than Jehovah granted His beloved Israel. The laws of the 
Christian nations., in so far as they are just; are deduced from the 
good laws God gave unto Israel. Many of these laws, in various 
forms and wording are upon the statute books of the Christian peo¬ 
ples, but the laws guarding the appropriation of the treasures and 
commodities of life are strangely absent in present statute books, 
which do not even reveal a trace of the existence of such laws. The 
non-existence of such laws as the Jewish Sabbatic year explains the 
prevailing conditions of extreme riches on the one hand, and extreme 
poverty on the other. This condition makes the modern world cold 
and dark and miserable on the one side, while the other side moves in 
a brilliantly lighted atmosphere, decked with beautiful colors, feed¬ 
ing their never satisfied appetites with the fruits of the labor of the 
bv them wrecked and not recognized poor, provoking them to 
jealousy, anger, and to a hardly governable attitude of seeking ven¬ 
geance for the unrighteousness done unto them. 

Even among God’s own people, endowed with such gracious 
laws, we find instances of injustice practised by the usurping rich, 
who defrauded the comparatively poor out of its own inherited 
possessions, thereby debasing themselves, receiving in due time the 
curse meted out to them for their wicked extortions and transgres¬ 
sions. If God then visited such disregarded of His laws, does it 
not'stand to reason that He also will visit those nations who dis¬ 
respect His laws and are hoarders of exorbitant wealth and op¬ 
pressors of the poor and needy? 

If the so-called Christian nations had been wise, they would have 
copied the so well founded laws of the sabbatic year, saving them- 






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selves an overflow of trouble and the sure coming wrath of (jod. 
Under protection of these laws the laying up of unheard treasures 
would have been impossible, and the consequent defrauding of the 
poor out of their honest wages could never be accomplished, and 
never would the seat of government be transferred to the sinister 
power of unrighteous Mammon, as is to-day the fact perhaps in all 
Christian civilized nations. 

Because Mammon sways his scepter over the entire world, revo¬ 
lution sweeps over the one country, another country is in the throes 
and pangs and fears of socialism, again another country shakes like 
a leaf on account of the unstableness of social conditions, while an¬ 
other country holds its hands above its head trembling for the 
rumors of bolsheviki fast gaining field. All these evils can be laid 
at the door of Mammon and therefore Scripture is perfectly right in 
assuming that the love of money is the root of all evil. 

The true students of to-day and of the history of the world 
must admit the truthfulness of the above. It behooves us to cast 
only one glance in the history of Germany with its Yonkerdom trail¬ 
ing throughout the ages usurping the rights and the profits of the 
producing class, to be convinced that Mammon assuredly is a very 
hard master. Read the history of any nation, Christian or otherwise, 
and the student will soon be aware of the fact that the unjust ac¬ 
cumulation of riches works and produces havoc and disaster to the 
very nation tolerating this ungenerous practice. 

The heaping up of capital can be traced from the building of 
the wonderful tower of Babel, which means so much and points to 
so much. Scripture reveals the wickedness of this practice in Israel 
as well as in heathen countries, and prophets and apostles saw in it 
an element, which, thru its evil influences was bound to inflame the 
whole earth hastening it toward its ultimate doom, for unrighteous 
Mammon refuses to recognize the just God, and therefore the un¬ 
limited accumulation of riches is the cause of intense suffering, 
degenerated poverty, unspeakable sickness, socialism, bolsheviki, an¬ 
archy, death and hell, not alone for the masses, but for the classes as 
well. James 5:1 to 6. 

The gathering of immense treasures was always a sinister evil 
born with a tendency to become worse and worse as the ages passed 
by. No age ever witnessed the unprecedented heaping up of riches 
as our day, the glorious day of the “modern world/ 5 The great 
European conflict born of jealousy and an unpardonable love for 
greatness, fanned by the International Banking Corporation, prac¬ 
tising in Wall Street, New York, accumulated the enormous sum of 
ten billion dollars, gathered thru the hatred of man, which destroved 
the works of his own hand and the glory of his being. The head 
of the American Oil Concern is reported to have a monthly income 
of one million dollars. Lord Astor some time ago bought the isle 




of Jura for the consideration of millions of dollars, and presented 
his son with the dominion of a king. These are a few of the mani¬ 
fold instances showing a state of affairs which must necessarily end 
in a time of general dissatisfaction, followed by ungovernable wrath, 
anger and vengeance and unutterable calamities. 

That we are in the golden age of brilliant wisdom, glorious 
intelleetualism, over-piousness, indulging in every sort of excess, 
congratulating each other with our happy Christianity and wonder¬ 
ful civilization guided and directed by Mammon, is and must be 
clear to every one who has as yet eyes to see god Mammon sitting in 
his beautiful temple. For, this is the age in which God is being 
denied, of blasphemies, of boasting, of higher criticism, of phil¬ 
osophy, of evolution, pantheism, man-edification, humanism, of 
profiteering, of wholesale robbery, of tremendous fortunes, of star¬ 
vation, of slaughtering, of consumptuous living, of debasing in¬ 
gratitudes, of inflaming desires, of piousness, of recklessness, of 
lovelessness, of hatred, of unthankfulness, of misery, of fraud, of 
corruptness, of political decay, of commercial unsoundness, of social 
unstableness, of intellectual wickedness, of secret combinations, of 
God-dethroning, and of man-exaltation, and this unspeakable God 
provoking chaos we deftly baptize with the honorable name of “The 
Christian Civilized Modern World," which we foolhardily believe is 
getting better and better day by day. O miserable delusion: O 
beautiful dream: O horrid nightmare! 

This so beguiled world reels and staggers as a drunken man to 
and fro, bewitched and stupified by the dazzling glory of god Mam¬ 
mon, who is a tyrant cold blooded and heartless, a tyrant who in his 
turn shall be demolished in the clutches of another tyrant, in all 
respects much worse than himself. In the next chapter we shall 
discuss a little of the spirit of this god. 

Jesus said: “Satan is king of the world." This king introduced 
the Syrian god, god Mammon, into the so-called civilized world to 
blindfold the rulers and their subjects, the free and the bond and 
fired them with an unconquerable desire to possess that which does 
not belong to them. Needless to say this brought on wars to be 
followed by wars to hold what covetousness gained. God Mammon, 
throughout the ages has ruled with a rod of iron, torturing the one 
with an unquenchable thirst for gold, and the other with a lack of 
the necessities of life. 

Satan proves that he is a very wise king. It is his business to 
understand “the signs of the times." He beholds in the people of 
to-day an educated race. They do not want the well beaten paths 
of Ceasars and Kings, the rule of the one any more; the rule of the 
majority is now the goal. Democracy is the ideal of educated peo¬ 
ple. and therefore democracy Satan is giving to them. In this dem¬ 
ocracy he suffers them to imagine that they are ruling and govern- 




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ing themselves, but he takes good care that the real situation is not 
detected nor uncovered by them, although he is unable to prevent a 
glimpse of what is really going on, as in the case of the great world 
war. 


Satan is still king to-day, it is his business to deceive. And 
surely he does yet deceive the pious world and the sleeping church. 
In dethroning the kings of the earth, he also changed his seat of 
government. Did he in the past lead the world onward through the 
operations of the cruel crowned heads, to-day he sets the pace by 
controlling the giant financial colossusses of the world, the genius of 
the modern world. These great rulers, unlike the kings, govern in 
secret, gaining and holding their power by persuading and buying. 
These rulers, unlike the crowned heads, have no people, country or 
any God. Their only aim in life is to possess the earth and the full¬ 
ness thereof. Gold, gold, gold is their god. They set nation against 
nation, kingdom against kingdom to gain their end. To satisfy and 
pacify their desires they cross rivers of human blood, they ford 
streams of mother tears, they climb Alps of human skeletons. \These 
men are the merciless rulers of the modern world, who, to lighten 
their task of plundering, advise favorably the hell concocted scheme 
of “The League of Nations/’ or “The Federation of the Peoples." 
or “The Parliament of Men," of which the humanist poet laureate 
Tennyson sung. They think and dream such a regime the mani¬ 
festation of glorified mankind on earth, paradise regained by man’s 
own efforts, while it is simply nothing more or less than the so-called 
Christian nations solidified in the arms of Mammon. 

What the ultimate results of such a position must needs be, is 
easier to imagine than to unfold. We shall however attempt to 
disclose a bit of it, as we have history to testify to it and scripture to 
reveal it partly. The next chapter will speak of this situation. 




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CHAPTER TEN 

The World To-Day in Political and Social Chaos. 


And zvhereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, 
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but 
they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not 
mixed with clay. Daniel 2:43. 

The earth is utterly broken dozen, the earth is clean 
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth 
shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be re¬ 
moved like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall 
be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. 
Isaiah 24:19, 20. 

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, 
and with the bag full of deceitful weightsf For the 
rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants 
thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful 
in their mouth. Micah 6:11, 12. 

And behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead; 
and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. 
And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast it in the 
midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon 
the mouth thereof. Zechariah 3:/, 8. 

Raging zvaves of the sea, foaming out their ozvn 
shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the black¬ 
ness of darkness forever. How that they told you there 
should be mockers in the last time, zvho would walk after 
their own ungodly lusts. Jude :i3, 18. 

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying: 
Babylon the great is fallen, and is become the habitation 
of dezils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage 
of every unclean and hateful bird. Rev. 18:2. 

For then shall be great tribulation, such as zcas not 
since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor 
ever shall be. When ye therefore shall see the abomina¬ 
tion of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, 
stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him under¬ 
stand). Math 24:21, 15. 


In preceding chapters we beheld god Mammon in complete con¬ 
trol of the modern world. We found him holding the reigns of the 
political, the intellectual, yes even of the religions world. Conceding 
that for the present he has reached the peak of his glory, the top of 




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success, above which he cannot ascend; we must, for our own good, 
hnd the conditions and the effects wrought by such an abnormal 
heaping up of treasures, which has smashed traditions and destroyed 
bounds and boundaries, heretofore recognized by mankind. 

The commercial world uses scales and balances for the proper 
and just weighing of substances sold in the market of the world. If 
you place a feather in one scale and an ox in the other you cannot 
balance your scales but the one shall go up and the other down. It 
seems to me this is the prevailing condition in the modern world. 
Upon one scale the human-weight of man has been placed and upon 
the other god Mammon has plunged the enormous bulk of his colos¬ 
sus, unbalancing the scales of society, politics and religion. The eyes 
of man see this as well to-day as it was perceived by the prophet 
Zechariah living about 500 years before Christ. 

This prophet, instructed by the angel to “lift up his eyes” saw an 
ephah with a woman sitting in the midst thereof, who was, “cast a 
weight of lead upon her mouth.” This ephah was said: to—“goeth 
forth,” which is, “its resemblance would be found through all the 
earth.” Later, we read ; two women brought this ephah to “Shinar” 
where it should be established in a build house.” 

This picture, in its completeness, undoubtedly, unfolds the very 
condition and the very dilemna wherein the modern world of to-dav 
is displaying its very greatness and its very instability. The “ephah” 
is the emblem of trade, (Commercialism.) It requires not much of 
a mind to see the “two women” representing politics and commerce, 
and the lone woman in the midst of the ephah “religion.” This 
woman, when Zechariah saw her, had a leaden weight upon her 
mouth. This leaden weight is “wickedness” which is the personifi¬ 
cation of god Mammon, the unrighteous one. This particular woman 
with the weight upon her mouth, is the apostate church, which be¬ 
cause of her commercialistic gains, cannot expose the wickedness of 
the political and commercial worlds but exalts their ungodliness and 
declares their “God-dethroning hell hatred” the “righteousness of 
God." This is what she really did when she glorified the horrid 
inhuman-christians-slaughtering world-war as “righteous.” 

Many eyes behold the condition of the scales overbalanced by 
god Mammon when he stepped upon one of the scales. Many per¬ 
ceive it, and many offer relief. The religiously inclined, and es¬ 
pecially the educated clergy seek to rebalance the scales by very old 
schemes, rebaptized with new and beautiful sounding names, doc¬ 
tored up with the application of Christ’s name in front of their 
bright inventions. To name a few: “Christian Political Parties,” 
“The Christian American Daily,” which was, before its was born, 
rebaptized; “The American Standard,” discarding the Christ name. 
Other ministers came with, “Neo Calvinism,” “New Conscience,” 
“New Internationalism,” and other philosophical and philanthropical 
remedies. 





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J he intellectual minded came with socialism, Christian and other¬ 
wise, with unions, reorganized government, education, disfranchise¬ 
ment and numeral other valuable considerations to balance the scales. 

Mammon himself also came deftly to the rescue and offered the 
modern world the very costly scheme of—“The Interchurch World 
Movement. 7 ’ 

Others again hold that the modern world can only be thoroughly 
modernized by bolsheviki and anarchy. 

d he political world came with a mighty idea to re-establish 
equilibrium by offering the gigantic scheme of “The League of 
Nations. 77 

The reader will observe that some of these things show a tint of 
religious coloring, but they as well as the rest bear the earmark of 
man. No, not one of all the great men offering relief offered the 
poor modern world God, so very much needed in this strange world 
of ours. 

Notwithstanding all these great doctors, Mammon quietly holds 
down the scales, disbalancing all the affairs of mankind. 

This disbalancing is apt to disharmonize the three main arteries 
of life, represented bv religion, intellect and politics. 

The great war was indeed nothing but a mighty hurricane 
which had its origin in the high pressure of the financial and com¬ 
mercial atmosphere. It uproots religion. It shakes society. It 
disturbs politics and has the general effect of placing the modern 
world in a state of chaos. 

Religion became puffed up, and its great pretenders roamed 
through the world, running to and fro as wandering stars blowing 
their own greatness, tying up the God of heaven in a commercialistic 
newspaper, making commerce the medium of the Holy Spirit, de¬ 
frauding the church out of the true Christ. 

Other religious men, in the name of Christ, please; came to re¬ 
deem the sinful world with a so-called calvinistic army, losing sight 
of the fact that this particular “ism 77 as well as all the others forsook 
Christ when He needed its help the most. The same class of men 
have clothed the American Dollar in a beautiful religious garb of 
some kind, which thus appeared as an angel of light, for whom the 
unsuspecting crowd obediently kneeled. Did their religious leaders 
not assure them that in this manner they were upbuilding Gods 
Kingdom, while in reality they elevated some new found idol, ex¬ 
alting it and Mammon as commercial “saviors 77 of the church. 
Other spiritual leaders found the elixer of life in the idol called with 
the so sweet sounding name of “The New Conscience, 77 or “New 
Internationalism 77 and the very holy idol “Inter Church World Move¬ 
ment. 77 These men are depicted in Ezekiel 22:26, 28 and Jude 
likens them to “wandering stars, clouds without water. 77 These are 




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those who set religion a trembling, fearing the wrath of a very 
jealous God, driving the true believers out of their churches, in the 
name of God and Calvin feeding themselves, being truly blind 
leaders of the blind. They are unsound and unstable in doctrine, 
preaching to-day this, tomorrow exactly the opposite, trying to 
please, feeling the way of the “majority” striving after popularity, 
having the name of Jesus upon their lips, but who do not walk in 
His ways, hindering them who are indeed seeking the Christ. Their 
appearance is very pious, but they hate and despise the truth, and 
when one speaks the truth, they maliciously slander him. A situa¬ 
tion as described here and visible to every honest observer cannot 
be but very detrimental to whatsoever exists in lower strata, for 
truly, religion is the highest sphere of man’s existence. If religion 
discards the truth and seeks not the living God, but is satisfied and 
pacified with a carload of self-made idols and images “falling out of 
heaven ;” blowing itself hoarse in crying “Great is the Diana of; ? 

then, I think, it is only fair to presume and acknowledge that all the 
other realms are absolutely without base and foundation. 

The intellectual world which consists of and includes almost 
all other worlds as the financial, the industrial, the commercial as 
well as the worlds of pleasures, of recreation, of learning and of 
schooling, etc., etc., represents the social world in its entirity. And 
how do we find this great and magnificent modern world to-day 
illuminated with the bright stars and suns already mentioned ? The 
financial world, no matter how bright, is dark indeed. The heaped 
up treasures have lowered valuations. The mighty dollar has lost 
almost three quarters of its purchase power, which is for the present 
balanced by a liberal distribution, which at any time may be stopped. 

The industrial world is, as a matter of course, suffering from 
the instability predominant in financial circles, wringling and wrang¬ 
ling over “over inflated conditions of securities.” Industry and 
commerce had and used the opportunities to gain piles of money by 
the extraordinary world conditions and artificiallv raising- of here- 
tofore established standards. The great war hogs made fabulous 
sums of money by unscrupulous and questionable practises and in¬ 
duced others to follow suit. Labor in general did not suffer, but 
acted as it was taught “to get while the getting was good,” which 
was followed in the worlds of pleasure, recreation, learning and 
schooling, which now also begin to feel a tendency of falling, per¬ 
haps, into the opposite extremities. 

The unheard of accumulation of capital was indeed very much 
responsible for the temptation to Christian nations to murder and 
annihilate each other. This abnormal greed was plentifully fed 
during the great war but not satisfied, and therefore even to-day it 
stretches forth unholy hands which are very desirous to seize what 
it has so far missed. This is one, and perhaps the great cause that 
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uproots the laws of God and sets at naught the statutes of mankind. 
1 his great sin of accumulation produces a dissatisfied mind and soul, 
and is the besetting sin of the poor as well as of the rich. This sin 
makes the rich harsh, cruel and unrighteous, while it provokes the 
poor man to anger and wrath, which seeks to revenge itself in strikes, 
riots and other unlawful actions. The modern world to-day is 
wound up in dissatisfaction. The rich are dissatisfied because they 
do not control all and everything. The poor are dissatisfied because 
they do not control the rich, and all agree in this, that they are 
seeking their own without consulting God or even remembering Him. 

This very unfortunate condition controlling rich and poor, em¬ 
ployer and employee is not likely to improve by the passing of the 
days. This unredeemable chaos in the modern world wall never find 
the so earnestly wished for solution. It is simply impossible. It can 
never he accomplished with the present footing upon which the deli¬ 
cate fabric of man's ambition is reared. The entire frame-up of the 
glorious appearing modern world is absolutely void of the essence of 
life, which consists in the knowledge of the true God, Creator of 
heaven and earth. The base and foundation of the modern world 
to-day rest upon the shallow and hollow opinions of mere insignifi¬ 
cant man. He shall seek his own salvation. He does not need God, 
nor does he care for Him. He is self-sufficient. He shall establish 
“Man’s Kingdom. 77 He shall climb in the highest heavens intent to 
dethrone God. The man-made perfection of the modern world is 
nothing but a dried up eggshell which at any moment might be 
blown to pieces. 

In these few lines we have attempted to draw a more or less 
clear picture of the conditions prevailing in the so much boasted of 
religious and social spheres of the glorious modern world, which 
are just as void of stability as the world of politics which now re¬ 
quires our attention and which we shall find as much in chaos, and 
perhaps even more so than the ones we have just discussed. 

If anything beneath the heavens is in agitation, in turmoil and 
in chaos, it is the political world. 

Daniel, the prophet, gives a pretty accurate description of 
present conditions, when he, relating the political image seen bv king 
Nebuchadnezar, informs us that the ten toes are made up of loam 
and iron, substances representing weak and strong conditions, which 
do not mix notwithstanding the streneous efforts of xnankind to 
perform this much desired unification. 

Behold the nations of the world, running to and fro, now mur¬ 
dering each other, and to-morrow directe.d by better impulses seek¬ 
ing each other's friendship, overthrowing it again as soon as it has 
been gained, deliberately viciously flying at each others throats fis so 
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Behold, while writing, the great leaders, the kings of the mod¬ 
ern world, as so many friends and enemies in congress together at 
Geneva in an endeavor to solder and cement the loam and the iron 
together into one solid mass! Of what? 

The president of the American nation upon “greetings from 
yonder sent the following message to the “honorable assembly:' 
which we copy from the Herald-American Examiner of November 
18th, 1920: 

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—President Wil¬ 
son today sent the following message to the assem¬ 
bly of the league of nations: 

“Hon. Paul Hymans, president of the assem¬ 
bly of the league of nations, Geneva, Switzerland: 

“The greetings so graciously sent to me by 
the assembly of the league of nations through you 
have gratified me very deeply indeed. I am indeed 
proud to be considered to have played any part in 
promoting the concord of nations with the estab¬ 
lishment of such an instrumentality as the league, 
through whose increasing usefulness and success I 
look forward with perfect confidence. 

“Permit me to extend my personal greetings 
to the assembly, if they will be gracious enough 
to receive them, together with an expression of my 
hope and belief that their labors will be of immense 
value to the whole civilized world. 

“WOODROW WILSON.” 

This clearly shows the great expectations ex-President Wilson 
had of the human efforts of men to weld the impossible “loam and 
iron" together which shall give the so much coveted, and the not 
desired peace upon the earth. 

That these great peace makers the kings of the modern, of the 
so bragged about Christian world are enjoying themselves is evi¬ 
dent by a picture, shown in a daily paper, of four scanty clad Swiss 
maidens who dance before the most august assembly. This won¬ 
derful and particular dance is called “Progress.” (Thanks). That 
the Almighty, at His time shall deride these wonderful peace-makers, 
is foretold in Psalm 2. 

That it is not all peace in this grand peace gathering is the 
topic of discussion even in the great dailies of America, for they 
inform us that the peace makers are meeting enormous rocks, con¬ 
sisting in the facts that the three greatest of them are greatly agi¬ 
tated and worked up about who shall be the big “I." England, 
France and Italy each striving after the great goal. 





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I hat such a peace-pact with such fearful odds against it can 

never mean very much, must be, I think plain to the studious ob¬ 

server who is acquainted with present and past history. Only a 
few years ago the same nations planned the very thing now under 
consideration. T hey had, in fact, agreed as to an everlasting peace, 
and yet, while assembled at their beautiful Peace Palace at The 
Hague; hell broke loose among them, which, as we saw, we had to 
acknowledge as heaven, piously so declared by a wicked, sinister 
and fallen clergy. 

There is no country upon God’s globe, but it is suffering in 
some form or the other from this horrid political upheaval, which 
leaves everywhere ruin and chaos. 

England, the protector of the small States, has annexed many 

of them to the dominion of brave old England, and now she reaps 

a harvest of troubles as a reward for her greediness. Look at her 
Irish trouble, which may turn out to be England’s political downfall. 
Read of her tender mercies in India. Imagine her feeding the 
heathens with whiskey, opium and other vices of the white races, 
so that it might be better able to protect them. Behold Great Britain 
ruling the waves, the heathens and the civilized nations. Wherever 
man travels on the globe he is sure of the protection of the British 
flag, be it in Egypt, Africa, China, or Japan. And all of them and 
many more are very suspicious of grand old England, but as long 
as Lloyd George waves the rules and rules it all, old England will 
be safe to a certain extent, although troubles, heretofore never 
known beset her on all sides, externally as well as internally. 
Strikes, riots, dissatisfactions and disturbances are the order of the 
day. But one thing shall always be counted good and gracious, and 
that is the love of the English people to bring the gospel of Christ 
Jesus from one end of the earth to its remotest corner. As for the 
government of England ; surely never ruled more shrewd and lewed 
men over any kingdom than the kingdom of England can boast of. 
England is in political chaos as well as every other country, and she 
has an enemy which is still shrewder and lewder, and more deeper 
diplomatically than the best of her statesmen, for let the world look 
out for the just awakening Jap, the friend and at the same time the 
enemy of England. 

Erance also, with little less dominion, small states to protect, is 
in about the same fix as the queen of the seven seas. She has more 
than her hands full in her newly acquired boundaries. France as a 
matter of fact is very suspicious of England, and at the same time 
she looks with nefarious eyes at Germany mistrusting her as well as 
any bodv else. France prepares for a new war with Germany, reads 
a headline in a Chicago paper of Nov. 18, 1920, showing plainly that 
country in the throes of political chaos. 





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Italy with her Flume problem about settled distrusts perfide 
England* and is at this moment busily favoring French motions calcu¬ 
lated to outwit old England regarding the big “I” situation of the 
League of Nations, but will break away from France as soon as 
chances for her predomination develop. 

Germany is supposedly badly broken down, but seemingly not 
discouraged, she takes good care of herself and looks to the future 
for balm which will restore her to her lost position among the 
nations, and enable her to revenge herself on her old enemies. 

The Balkan States are as always in turmoil and agitation, being 
the caldron which delivers death hell and destruction among its 
gracious protectors. 

Greece lost her king a few weeks ago, according to newspaper 
reports as a result of the bite of a monkey, and is now wondering 
and more or less disturbed by the reports that foreign money tries 
to purchase the throne. 

America has just deftly defeated her president's strange dream 
of delivering this country to the mercies of her relentless friends, 
the European kingdoms, and more particularly of her extremely 
scheming friend Johnny Bull. 

The great men of the modern world seemed to feel the need of 
a very brave and innocent treasurer, and their leader for the moment 
Mr. Woodrow Wilson perceiving such, nominated Uncle Sam for 
the honorable position, which was very happily strenuously seconded 
by all the grant lords living on the other side of the big pond. They 
had found Uncle Sam a very good paymaster with common fodder 
as well as with the mighty dollar and other tokens of love and ap¬ 
preciation. But thanks to the Lord in heaven, who aroused sensible 
Americans who had the courage to stand for America with her laws 
of freedom, America, led on by these true men full of manhood, 
spoiled the European feast refusing to mingle itself into their 
nefarious diplomatical sinister schemes wrought with duplicity and 
lying and God-dishonoring quarrels. America wisely frustrated the 
attempt of her most willing friends to make her a protector of their 
new and old stolen boundaries which they thought America would 
graciously defend with her brave sons, her money and her life. No, 
thanks to God, America would not be part of such a scheme no not 
even when her president cried and lamented that America was 
breaking the heart of the poor old world. Wilson’s own article X 
was the heart of the world so made by honorable Mr. Wilson, but 
America had no use for such a heart when it became evident what 
the throbbing of such a heart would mean for the poor mother of 
America and the gracious flag of the country. And now it is up 




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again to Wall Street, the seat of secret government of the world, to 
scheme with the grand world-schemers another scheme worthy the 
scheming of such schemers. What will the grand assembly con¬ 
vened in Geneva now devise? Will they give the League of Nations 
a new heart? Will they substitute another article X for the one 
which was such a bad loser? Would it not be prudent for them to 
change Mr. Root from Wall Street for a minister of the gospel, 
some of which profession proved such great inventors of new con¬ 
science ? We shall see what will happen, but this is sure; America 
will not join and be plucked, she might possibly join and do some 
plucking. 


America, at this moment is safe from European entanglement, 
unless something happens to the American soldiers still in strange 
countries, apparently by the orders of a thoroughly defeated presi¬ 
dent. But America is notwithstanding in pangs and throes as to the 
near future. The war has brought upon this country some kind of a 
blood prosperity, by which the war hogs and war profiteers bene- 
fitted the most, Wall Street alone cleared the uncountable sum of 
fifteen billion dollars. The government of the United States seem¬ 
ingly allowed profiteering upon a great scale, she herself spending 
millions and millions for aircraft without seeing any results. Mil¬ 
lions and millions of dollars were wasted in all conceivable and un¬ 
thinkable manners. Millions and millions were stolen, lost or strayed 
and no one seems to be responsible. 

To-day, the extra profiteering is on the wane. In some quarters 
prices are coming tumbling down. Factories failing to realize as 
much as they were wont to in spite have shut their doors. From 
all over come reports of a wholesale layoff of hired help. Labor is 
at a premium. Wages are lowered. Men walk the street. Bread, 
eggs milk and meat prices are still high. Money becomes scarce. 
The necessities of life are at a price-level where they should not be. 
FLmsrer stalks in the streets. Coal is too dear. The winter looms 
in the windows. Suffering will follow in the wake of the cold win¬ 
ter. Dissatisfaction is rampant. People accustomed to plenty can¬ 
not get what they need. No one saved a penny, nor could anybody 
save such a thing on account of the ever soaring prices of all things. 
People in general lived in luxury, the changing conditions find them 
badly unprepared to meet the coming times. Socialism is as always 
agitating. Bolsheviki tramples through the streets. Political con¬ 
ditions are in expectation. Social conditions are very far from 
satisfactory. The religious conditions which at least ought to be 
stable and sound, are the worst ever observed in grand America, 
they are by far the most disagreeable of the other, either separately 
or combined; they for sure and for fair are rot to the core being 
laid low in chaos. 








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America just like any other country of the globe feels the effects 
and the aftermath of the great war which has -set the entire world 
upon a growling and howling volcano which at any moment may 
bulge forth the blackest of smoke, and an unquencable flame de¬ 
vouring whatsoever is in her way. This is as far as I know a true 
picture of the modern world observed from the viewpoints of poli¬ 
tics, society and religion. 

Mr. Wilson in his “greeting” previously referred to in this 
chapter says, “I am proud of having played “any” part in promoting 
the CONCORD of nations with the establishment of such an in¬ 
strumentality as the LEAGUE of NATIONS.” 

The following comment upon this “greeting” is written March 
1923, when Mr. Wilson's League has had two years and three 
months to practise this supposed “CONCORD.” 

As reports have it after Mr. Clemenceau of France, (The 
Tiger) had met Mr. Wilson, Mr. Clemenceau stated that Mr. Wil¬ 
son still believed in the League expecting it to accomplish the very 
ideas for which he had propagated it. Now if Mr. Wilson was 
able to look at the League as it is operated, he, perhaps might be 
sorry for its very existence, for never in the history of Europe were 
nations more in discord than they are to-day. 

Under the rule of this League France is allowed to browbeat 
the giant who is almost overwhelmed and drowned in the wicked 
stream of selfishness springing in the very heart of the wonderful 
Wilson League. In invading the Ruhr district France acts as a wild 
beast of the wilderness toward the conquered enemy Germany, the 
same Germany which believing in the beautiful and gracious four¬ 
teen points of Mr. Wilson laid down her weapons of defense to be 
in cold blood murdered by her fierce and hateful political enemy 
France, member in chief of the League of Nations, without inter¬ 
ference of the verv League of Nations which exists solely to bring 
CONCORD in the WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD! 

Again, behold the beautiful “concord” in the east, far and near. 
Perceive Great Britain arraying the poor Greek against the mon¬ 
strous Turk, arraying faded intellect against the hineous crescent. 
Behold France supporting the Turk, and the consequent burning of 
Smyrna and the murder of Christians, in spite of the League of 
Nations and twenty-three other “PEACE” gatherings in different 
places of the Christian world. 

Yes, the concord of nations speaks fluently in the ugly drive of 
France of the German officers into the hordes of Russia, bolsheviki, 
which are drilled by these perfect army officers into unconquerable 
armies which will return unto France, and the world at large to 
punish hundredfold the injustice wrought on the heroes of 1872. 






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The “Concord” of Nations did not accomplish any good toward 
the fifty, or more, nations represented by the League, nor did it any 
good to the nations without its federation, and it is booked as a 
complete failure politically, morally and diplomatically. 


_ • 

The League of Nations after two years operation has proved it¬ 
self a bitter failure, and has acted more as an instigator of evil, a 
power of destruction, a raiser of unwarranted jealousies, a womb 
delivering many political wrangles and discord, and an instrument 
working incalculable havoc brewing social, political, moral and 
financial chaos. 

This is only the beginning. What will the end be? Is not the 
League of Nations exactly depicted in the loam and iron substances 
of the ten toes of Daniels political pompous image, signifying the 
loose connections between the nations who notwithstanding have 
arraved themselves in a federacy calculated to thwart God the Al- 
mighty ? 









THE WORLD TO-MORROW RULED BY BOLSHEVIK! 


CHAPTER ELEVEN 

The World, Tomorrow Ruled By Bolsheviki. 


Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O 
inhabitants of the earth. Isaiah 24:17. 

Tremble, ye zoomen that are at case, be troubled, ye 
careless ones; strip youf and make you bare, and gird 
sackcloth upon your loins. Isaiah 32:11. 

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble; 
your breath, as fire, shall devour you. And the people 
shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut up shall 
they be burned in the fire. Isaiah 33:11, 12. 

Howl ye ships of Tarshish; for your strength is laid 
waste. Isaiah 23:14. 

Hozv is the faithful city become an harlot; it was 
full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now 
murderers. Isaiah 1:21. 

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; Howl, ye 
ministers of the altar; come; lie all night in sackcloth, ye 
ministers of my God; for the meat-offering and the 
drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God. 
Joel 1:13. 

* 

Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say: 
Have ye not taken to us horns by our own strength? 
Amos 6:13. 

I considered the horns, and , behold, there came up 
amoung them another little horn, before whom there 
were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots; 
and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, 
and a mouth speaking great things. Dan 7:8. 

Come to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your 
miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are cor¬ 
rupted, and your garments are motheaten. James 5:1, 2. 

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many 
shall wax cold. Math 24:12. 

And the rest of the men zvhich were not killed by 
those plagues yet repented not of the works of their 
hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of 
gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of zvood, 
which neither can see nor hear, nor walk; Neither re¬ 
pented they of their murders, nor of their scorceries, 
nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Revelation 
9 : 20 , 21 . 






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In the preceding chapter we had a passing glimpse of the pre¬ 
carious and dangerous condition in which the modern world found 
itself wrapped up in its unspeakable troubles and calamities beset¬ 
ting it from all sides. 

Let no one be surprised at these things, but let us in fear and 
awe look up to the Almighty who looks down upon miserable man¬ 
kind and laughs and derides it in its unholy anger and ungodly 
attempt to override the rule of the King of Kings. 

\ es, some learned, wise and pious men believe that the great 
League of Nations, “The Federation of Man” shall establish peace 
and bliss and restore God's Own Gracious World to a world filled 
with love and good will, every man to his neighbor. And they do 
not realize that just in the close connections between nations lies 
the danger with its clouds of dark despair. The nations by dwelling 
together under one roof see with their eyes lightened up with ve¬ 
hement jealousy each other's weak points, of which they intend to 
take advantage at the first opportunity that offers itself. 

Since the general deluge and the scattering of the peoples over 
the earth, there always was a people that clung unto the Almightv, 
adoring Him as the Creator and Redeemer of sinners. In vain do 
we look to-dav round about us. No such people live to-day under 
the canopy of heavens which extol the Almighty, and seek through 
Him salvation or guidance. No the glorious modern world has 
grown alienated from such queer notions. And yet, if among all 
the nations one of them may lay claim to such a behavior, it is the 
small kingdom of Holland, which in a measure, comes nearest to 
such tender inclinations. 

Now then, if the general world condition is such as depicted 
here, how then, in the name of God, how then can the earth rejoice 
and be glad? It is impossible. All of the nations have discarded 
God, telling Him in plain words; we have no pleasure in walking in 
Thine ways. And shall God not visit such wicked and sinister denial 
of Flis name? Shall He not root out the uprooters of His laws? 
Most assuredly. Yes, and He accomplishes it by benumbing the 
peoples so that they fail to see, and refrain from understanding, and 
therefore He turns His back upon the backsliders so that darkness, 
chaos and despair beset them on all sides, as we saw is the real 
situation of to-day. 

In preceding chapters we have noticed that democracy and 
bolsheviki mean the very same thing. Both refer to the rule of the 
majority. Democracy, is the slogan of the Christian world, while the 
ungodly have written upon their banners the so much meaning name 
of bolsheviki. 

The real difference is in appearance and application, but both 
have this in common, that they do not seek the king of life, but 
imagine themselves to be 'the true kings, the one as king in the 
Christian and the other as king in the heathen world. 





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Both of these kings are to-day still subjected to the greater king 
who sways his mighty scepter over the entire realm of man, but 
who, on account of his extreme unrighteousness and fraud has 
succeeded in unsettling the affairs of man, plunging him and his 
entire environment in complete chaos, out of which man tries to 
redeem himself by unseating this most unjust king, god Mammon. 
This implies that the rule of Mammon is to be exchanged for the 
rule of the majority. Aristocracy making room for democracy and 
bolsheviki. Bolsheviki and democracy are to-day more than half 
conquerors. Democracy, in its various forms is an established fact 
in all of the Christian nations, and the semi-christians are ruling 
nearly the other half of both Christians and heathens under the name 
of bolsheviki. 

In the not more than half trustworthy newspaper-reports the 
facts are explained that Russia is during the last two years being 
governed by her sons, the peasants. The czar with his despots and 
tyrants, the despoilers of the people, have vanished, their thrones 
and titles have been abolished, and the rule of the people, bolsheviki, 
rules with its mighty arm the whole realm of old Russia. Yes, the 
obscure do govern in the place of the proud and haughty. 

The situation is not strange nor unexpected if we inquire into 
the possibility of such an unthought of and quickly wrought change 
of conditions. Explained from the view point of the political and 
social observer, it might be said to have been caused by the un¬ 
precedented mis-rule of the aristocracy, the Czar system. This is, 
of course, true, but a more careful investigator is not satisfied with 
such a superfluous explanation, perceiving God's finger upon the 
pages of history now in its finishing courses. 

The old Testament calls many peoples by their respective names, 
and traces them through the course of the ages giving partly their 
history as far as it is connected with God's own people, Israel. 
Most of these peoples have long ago vanished from the globe, but a 
few of them are easily traced to their true ancestors, the sons of 
Noah, who with their wives and parents survived the calamity of 
the general deluge. In Genesis 10:2 we find the names of the sons of 
Japhet, the eldest son of Noah. Gomar is the ancestor of the 
Cimbri and Celts. Magog of the Scithians and Mongolians. Madai 
of the Medes. Javan of the Ionians and Greeks and Meshech of the 
Moscovites or* Russians. The last named and the Mongolians are 
the peoples which we, in our further deliberations shall have to 
consider, but in this chapter our attention shall be occupied exclusive¬ 
ly with the Russians. 

Russia nearly covers a seventh of the total surface of the globe, 
its chief divisions are European Russia including Poland and Fin¬ 
land, Caucasia, Central Asia and Siberia. In the year 1909 the 



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estimated population was 152 millions. About 87 millions belong to 
the Orthodox'Greek Church, of which the czar was the head. There 
are about four million Protestants, eleven million Catholics and 
fourteen million Mohammedans and 5 million Jews, besides other 
not mentioned heathen tribes. 

One single glance at these multitudes convinces us that the 
majority are totally strangers to the graces of the gospel of Jesus 
Christ, and that they are upon a not much better footing than the 
poor heathens, although they perhaps do brag about some kind of 
a semi-christian civilization. 

These people were until the great European conflict, which em¬ 
broiled them from the very beginning not much better than the 
serfs and slaves of the system of aristocracy presided over by the 
czars of Russia. The czar, according to the works of Allen, White- 
head and Chadwick, was more responsible for the great calamity 
than any other nation because he mobilised his armies at the first 
provocation, and sent them to the boundaries and into German ter¬ 
ritory. 

At this point of our observation it is the opportune time to 
remember what Jesus said regarding this most inhuman struggle for 
the world supremacy. In Mathew 24:7 He calls our attention to this 
conflict when He says: And—nation shall rise against nation, and 
kingdom against kingdom, and verse 8,—These are the beginning 
of sorrows. Now this saying of Jesus, and the abnormal conflict of 
the nations harmonize in detail with the “loam and iron” condition 
of the ten toes of king Nebuchadnezar's political image spoken of 
in Daniel 2, which “future” history Daniel further reveals in his 
seventh chapter verses 7, 8, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 25. 

In this chapter Daniel instructs us regarding the God opposing 
world, in the picture of the four wild beasts. The fourth, or the 
last, the world of to-day, is the most worse of any of the preceding 
ones, no matter how pious, learned and civilized this our “modern 
world” with all its various colors of religion tries to appear. Upon 
this last beast, he beholds ten horns, by which grows another, a 
little one, which uproots three of the first. 

When we come to the chapter on the “Anti-Christ,” we shall 
meet these beasts again to discuss their identification a little closer. 
It will now suffice to say that the fourth beast represents the iron 
kingdom, or the Roman empire from its very formation to its end. 

This beast is the last of the beasts and is identified with the 
beast of Revelation 13 verse 1, and the end of this beast is the ter¬ 
mination of the world. Upon this beast than, Daniel beheld 10 
horns, which are in verse 24 explained, as being 10 “kings.” The 
number 10 in Scripture signifies the world in its absolute depravity, 
and this number 10 alludes to the great rulers of the world, whether 
they be kings, prime ministers or presidents. By these kings Daniel 







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sees another “king” a “little” one coming plucking three of the 
others up by the roots. “Plucking up by the roots” can never refer 
to a friendly and kind action, but represents the fiendish proceedings 
of a fierce enemy. And, as it seems to me; that is exactly what is 
being enacted in the history of the most inhuman war. Russia, 
Germany, Austria and Hungaria up to a very late year were ruled 
by their own established sovereigns or kings with their variation in 
titles. Where are they to-day ? They are murdered, as newspaper 
reports have it, and they have absconded. They are, as kings, gone, 
never to return. They are overwhelmed by the enormous waves of 
bolsheviki and by the bitter billows of democracy, and their coun¬ 
tries are steeped in woe and in distress, they are subdued and 
humiliated. These three kings were of royal blood, and inter-married 
with the royal blood of entire Europe, with the intended purpose to 
establish peace and grace upon the earth, but they have failed, just 
as Daniel saw it when he informed us about the loam and iron 
conditions of the beautiful modern world. He assuredly spoke the 
naked truth when he said in verse 24 that this “uprooter” should be 
“divers'” from the others. Look and behold and inquire" Was it a 
king who dethroned these three kings? Was it? Was he? No! 
The feat was simply accomplished with the brilliant slogan of the 
great liars “Make the world safe for democracy.” Democracy, led 
on by valiant America plunged just in time in this most grue¬ 
some struggle to save the Entente from an ignoble defeat, thereby 
becoming the instrument to fulfil God’s plan of visiting the sins 
of aristocracy and to establish democracy with its degenerating 
tendencies which in due time shall bring forth the so much coveted 
kingdom of Anti-Christ. Democracy won the day, but democracy 
does not rule, as yet, thanks to the shrewd interference of “un¬ 
righteous Mammon,” who is, after all, as we have seen still the 
secret ruler of the world governing in the form of Arist-Democracy. 

This unrighteous rule of Mammon, as we have seen, is respon- 
silbe for the chaos and dilemna which embarrass the poor old world, 
which grows so much better day by day as is seen and admired by 
the poor old world itself, now blooming in the Christian civilized 
modern world. 

This false system of Mammon cannot last for ever. This total 
depravity, ripening in the administration of unrighteous Mammon is 
bound to dissolve, and to be swept aside by a rule of uncontrollable 
forces developing in opposite quarters. But to-day, aristocracy 
rules yet in its old and true pomp, having succeeded to stay the rul¬ 
ings of kings and potentates, enthroning in their place the great 
heads of gigantic and titanic financial banking systems. This rule, 
in due time, according to James 5 will make place for a rule by the 
•'avengers.” Now, this form of government is to-dav in working 
order in old Russia. It is the rule by the people, which is called 






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bolsheviki over there and which we call democracy here. It is also 
called: “soviet government. This seems to upset one and all of 
the ordinances of the living God. It honors “free love,''' it anulls 
the marriage laws, it makes the State supreme owner and controller 
of all women and children, money and men, industry and agriculture, 
it supervises religion, Churches and schools. The governor is judge 
and culprit, lawyer and client, and must needs be a more ruthless 
tyrant than Mammon ever was or could afford to be. That time, 
when it shall be here, and that government, when it shall be estab¬ 
lished shall be a time of great trouble, of immense distress, a time 
of soreness, and a time of pain, a time of calamities and a time of 
anger, a time of vexation and a time of woe, a time of visitation and 
a time of vengeance, a time of injustice and a time of unrighteous¬ 
ness, a time of corruptness and a time of extreme bitterness, yea, in 
short it shall be the time of the great tribulation spoken of in Mathew 
24:21. 

Such a rule, and such a government established in all known 
lands and countries should induce the people of the enlightened and 
civilized modern world to proclaim: Why did we discard God and 
His laws? Why did the ministers of the gospel not inform us 
about the true conditions? Why did they beguile us with sweet 
sounding titles ? Why did they not warn us for the wrath of the 
Almighty Whom we have provoked to anger? But the realization 
of their mistakes will be too late. As it is to-day; the great religious 
leaders send the people home with empty boastings of Christian 
political parties, Christian newspapers and the such, but they have 
no Christ, so shall it be then, the religious leaders shall blindly lead 
the blind to the pit into which both fall, if God does not interfere. 
Then, even as now, the great men shall stand up and call the atten¬ 
tion of the unawares, the ignorant and the foolish to the false pre¬ 
tention that the world with great strides is perfecting itself. They 
all shall hold fast and string their carts to the wondrous wagon of 
king satan who as an angel of light rides triumphantly in the bril¬ 
liant atmosphere of this most beautiful modern world of ours. True 
religion, despised as now. shall be despised, shall be persecuted, shall 
be ignored by them who should glory in it. 


True religion, as now, shall be at a premium, and cursed and 
disturbed when found. God Almighty shall not be known, not be 
regarded, honored or obeyed. His work shall be despised, dis¬ 
carded and rooted out and fail to receive the least bit of recognition. 
Man, as now, and then the more so; shall be all in all, shall be 
supreme. Man now climbing the “Jacobs ladder” shall ascend into 
the highest heavens, and in grand piousness dethrone the Almighty. 
He shall think to establish “Man’s” rule in the earth as well as in 
the heavens. He will and can see nothing else but “man.” This 
shall have the effect of darkening the “sun” (Christ), for God's 




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Word shall not be understood, religion denying its power then many 
times worse than to-day. The stars, (Ministers of the gospel;) 
shall fall from heaven, we now plainly perceiving them preaching 
themselves and their little “hobbies.” They shall then boldly con¬ 
tradict the Scriptures teaching nicely cultivated lies, besides the 
great LIE. Hailstones, as now, shall fall upon them, but they 
shall not induce the backsliders to repent. 

This, it seems to me shall erelong be the condition of the 
bright modern world, because mankind, in general, deliberately and 
foolhardily forsook the Almighty and crucified anew the SON of 
the living God, repeating the very act of old hypocritical Israel. 

Let him who fears the Lord continually pray that the Almighty 
God may sustain his faith, for immense billows from the uproarious 
waters may perhaps pass over his head, but he that overcometh, so 
says God’s Holy Word; he that overcometh shall receive the crown 
of glory, and a white stone with a name written thereon which he 
alone shall be able to read. Let him stand manfully in the strength 
of his Lord, for in that day, religion shall be, even as it now already 
has become void and an empty boast. 






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CHAPTER TWELVE 

The World Seeking A Redeemer. 


And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and 
didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messen¬ 
gers afar off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. 
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot 
rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no 
peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Isaiah 57:9, 20, 21. 

Woe to the rebellous children, said the Lord, that 
take counsel, but not of me, and that cover zvith a cover¬ 
ing, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin. 
Isaiah 30:1. 

The earth mourneth arid fadeth away, the world lan- 
guisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the 
earth do languish. Isaiah 24:4. 

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of 
the morning; Hozv art thou cut dozvn to the ground, 
which didst weaken the nations. Isaiah 14:12. 

Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his 
anger, and the strength of battle; and it hath set him on 
fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet 
he laid it not to heart. Isaiah 42:25. 

Every one of them is gone back; they are altogether 
become filthy, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 
Psalm 53:3. 

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning op¬ 
pression; they speak loftily. They set their mouth against 
the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 
Psalm 73:8, 9. 

Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of 
elders were not honored. Lamentations 5:12. 

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man 
that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile. 
Romans 2:9. 

There is none that understandeth, there is none that 
secketh after God. Romans 3:11. 


The modern world in the full pomp and grandeur of its glitter¬ 
ing glory, is indeed in a very miserable condition. Its bold attempt 
at lightheartedness is shipwrecked upon the rocks of distress. Its 



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endeavor to look happy is a palpable failure. Its outward brightness 
cannot cover its inward gloom. The dancing and prancing modern 
world is to-day a world full of calamities. Catastrophe follows 
catastrophe. They overtake it unexpectedly and at random. The 
whole world, from the one extreme to the remotest parts is in 
trouble. The foundations of the earth do tremble. Pangs, as of a 
woman in travail are upon her. The cry of despair rents the air. 
The signals of distress are floating from the palaces as well as from 
the ignoble daylaborer's shack. The earth laments, the rocks groan, 
the woods mourn, they altogether shake and shudder and plaintively 
weep for the God of life. Agony, fear and regret look out of the 
dark holes of despair. Love is dead, Faith is lost and Hope is no 
more. 

Does anybody wonder that the world stares at the horizon from 
whence it expects a strong man? 

Does anybody wonder that it has set itself to work launching a 
‘‘man of war" upon the bellowing seas, striving to calm the roaring 
waves of the tumultuous waters? 

Does anybody wonder that it climbs the spires and the steeples, 
that it ascends the peaks of the ponderous mountains, looking, look¬ 
ing, intensively looking, looking, looking for—what? 

Does anybody wonder that the modern world calls its “wise 
sons’’- together, its sons, the “wise ones” who know, or who ought 
to know ? 

Does anybody wonder that it has assembled her great and wise 
rulers, and that they are now in council together to cure it of its 
grievous wound, so unmercifully inflicted upon it, and so unexpect¬ 
edly received, and so treacherously dealt by the very treacherous 
“wise men,” its sons, and now the know-nothing doctors who de¬ 
livered it such a treacherous blow ? 

Does anybody wonder now why the present world seeks relief 
from the evil which rests upon it as a man rests upon his bed? 

Yes, O yes. the modern world is tired, is indeed very tired, very 
sore, and its ignoble hurt hurts very ignobly, indeed. 

O behold it looking to the mountains. To the rivers. To the 
aged forests. To the deep oceans. To the wonderful skies. To the 
earth. To wisdom. To the soothsayers. To the devil-killers. To 
the spirits. To the dead. To the harpers. To the pipers. To the 
dreamers. To the dancers. To the players. To the singers. To— 
yes to everywhere and anything. Yes it seeks relief. It prays for 
relief, yes it prays fervently for relief to the politicians, to the 
magicians, to the image, to the religious, it prays to the earth, to 
heaven and hell for the cure of its sore wounds, so dastardly in¬ 
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Yes, O yes, the modern world smarts from her sores which it 
feels in the country, in the state, in the county, in the town, in the 
city, in the suburb, in the village, in the hamlet, in the castle, in the 
skyscraper, in the church, in the parsonage, in the cottage, in the 
palace, in the hut, yes indeed, it feels the grievous wound, and the 
members of its body do feel the awful sting of the still bloodgushing 
cut. 


O yes indeed. It seeks relief. Indeed, our beautiful Christian 
civilized enlightened modern world seeks relief from its almost un¬ 
bearable troubles. O yes, the woes are upon it. It realizes it. Let 
nobody be in doubt about it. Yes, O mercy yes, it realizes it! It 
needs a Savior, a Redeemer. It looks the world over for one who is 
able to rescue and to redeem. It seeks a savior who can help it, 
who can ward off its trouble besetting it from all sides. It seeks a 
mighty one who will be able to restore its former beauty unto it • 
again. 


O yes even as Esau the modern world seeks a redeemer with 
repentance, it, like him, bewails its trouble and seeks with tears a 
comforter, yes it seeks the place of repentance with a stream, a flood 
of tears, but like Esau, it finds no help, no uplifter, no cure for its 
troubles, for it is not the Lord, the only Redeemer, to whom it flies 
for redemption and deliverance. 

But, of all its great lovers, is there no one who is willing to aid 
the world in its distress, to show mercy unto it and help it? O yes. 
O yes. There are many, many yes many helpers, who try and offer 
it all what is in their power to grant it relief. 

In our next chapter we shall attempt to bring a few of these 
gracious redeemers before your attention. 


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CHAPTER THIRTEEN 

Many Redeemers. 


Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now 
will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the 
burden of the king of princes.” Hosea 8:10. 

The good man is perished out of the earth; and 
there is none upright among men, they all lie in ivait for 
blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net. The 
best of them is as a brier; the most upright is sharper 
than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen and thy 
visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. Micah 
7:2 and 4. 

Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a 
vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and 
the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and 
against his anointed. Psalm 2:1, 2. 

In that day, said the Lord of hosts, shall the nail 
that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut 
down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall 
be cut off; for the Lord had spoken it. Isaiah 22:25. 

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be 
broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries, 
and ye shall be broken in pieces,” gird yourselves, and ye 
shall be broken in pieces. T ake counsel together, and 
it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not 
stand: For God is with us. And when they shall say 
unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, 
and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter; should not 
a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 
And they shall look unto the earth, and behold trouble 
and darkness, dimness and anguish, and they shall be 
driven to darkness. Isaiah 8:9, 10, 19 and 22. 

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter 
the sheep of my pasture; saith the Lord. Jeremiah 25:1. 

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive 
many, For there shall rise false Christs, and false proph¬ 
ets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch 
that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 
Math 24:11, 24. 

So he carried me away in the spirit in the wildernis: 
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlot colored beast, full 
of names and blasphemy, having seven heads and ten 
horns. And upon her forehead was a name written, 
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTH¬ 
ER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF 
THE EARTH. And the woman which thou sazvest 
is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of 
the earth. Rev. 17:3, 5 and iS 





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Day laborers, manufacturers, bankers, experts in all vocations, 
yea, even some of the clergy, agree that to-day we live in a very 
peculiar world which seeks satisfying solutions of the various prob¬ 
lems which confront it, and which are growing more serious than 
ever; which, if no solution is found will bring the modern world 
so full of hope upon the brink of utter ruin. 

Banks fail, the farmers are at a loss how to till their farms for 
the next season, because the money they need is unreasonably with¬ 
held from them. Newspapers loudly denounce and protest against 
such a policy pursued by a government which lend billions to 
strangers and fails to protect its own citizens. 

Everybody admits there is a strange spirit in the hearts of men 
which induces them to prattle about peace, while their acts are deeds 
of lying and murder. 

The unprincipled, cold blooded war which the great men of the 
modern world glorified as being the carrier of the beautiful “dove of 
peace,” proves to be the “eager” of it, uprooting the last vestige of 
harmony, mocking democracy, anulling love, disqualifying grace and 
mercy, multiplying and intensifying troubles and problems. The 
war was to be the solver of all ailments, troubles and problems of 
our most gracious modern world, and behold the success. Chaos, 
distress and ruin stare at us from every corner and quarter, and 
there is no God to Whom we look for deliverance. 

We do not need God. The modern world is able to help itself. 
So it thinks, and so it acts. Entirely void of honesty it swells up 
in hatred, jealousy, vice, corruptness, craftness, lightheartedness, 
comforting itself with a system of false religion. The lie from hell 
is the acknowledged guide of the great ones of the magnificent 
modern world who, nevertheless, do grope in darkness fervently 
seeking some one or something which promises to restore the old 
tired world to its former vanished glory. 

And, as stated in a previous chapter, many men, things and 
ideas, comprehending the situation, come boldly forward pretending 
their ability to create order out of chaos, to restore peace and har¬ 
mony and to lead the world toward the pathway of glory at the 
pinnacle of bliss. 

We have observed before that the modern world is suffering in 
its three main arteries of life, which seem to be poisoned, paralized 
or otherwise rendered unfit to properly conduct their various func¬ 
tions. These three arteries, as we remember, are Religion, In- 
tellectualism, and Politics and their sickening conditions are being 
made the object of deep study, and many shrewd men come skilfully 
forward patronizingly patting the sick ones and guarantee them com¬ 
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A casual observer notices, no doubt, that both politics and in- 
tellectualism, recommend as a cure of the ills of the world, the 
restoration of Scripture in the public schools, and more Scriptural 
reading by the general public, while at the same time many clergy¬ 
men try to doctor the poor old world with the application of its 
wickedness such as politics, newspapers and such, which they deftly 
color up with Christ's beautiful name. This, as it seems to me, 
shows the seriousness of the prevailing condition. 

All these “doctors” are the so extremely willing “redeemers," 
who, every one in his own language proclaim loudly: “Hear Ye, I 
am the Christ. Come, listen to me." 

To gain a better understanding of these “home-doctors" we 
have described the actions and operations of a few of them from as 
close a quarter as we were able to master. In rotation they are: 
The League of Nations. The Inter-Church World Movement, 
Christian Science, Spiritualism, Christian Paperdom, Christian 
Politics. Budget System, Million Dollar Funds for colleges, Rus- 
selism, The Catholic Church and Secret Societies. 

The Literary Digest of December 4, 1920, under the heading 
“The Federation of Man,” gave various opinions of the different 
writers regarding this “Federation of Man." Finance, Intellectual- 
ism. Humanism, and a vague “FEAR,” competed for pre-eminence, 
but the great outstanding fact which overshadowed all and was hid 
in all utterances was the utter lack of taking cognizance of God. 
It is not strange at all that the Christian nations assembled at Geneva, 
under—“the bare brown rafters" of the Hall of “Reformation" act 
as though their rulers and not God shall be supreme. The term 
“Federation of Man" expresses correctly the esteem “man” has for 
self and his aversion he has for God. Since Eden man has Sought to 
attain to this wonderful accomplishment. 

Reading and meditating upon what capital (acting in secret) 
has to say, and what intellectualism brings to bear, and what hu¬ 
manism has tff say regarding this matter; and finding them strongly 
co-operating with each other and using conditions and circumstances 
to advance and rear up such a colossal scheme, no one needs to be 
surprised as to the realization of this wonderful invention of man. 

The war-tired nations led by the three great recognized forces. 
Mammon, Intellectualism and Humanism now in operation and con¬ 
trol, are willing to submit almost to anything which promises a 
speedy relief from calamities, chaos, instability and disaster which 
grin at them as hungry wolves at their prev. 

These three forces, or mighty agents of “ignoble selfishness” 
have their special reasons to belie the unawares, the mighty multi¬ 
tudes, the unthinking hordes, who seem to glorify their own unwar¬ 
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A close examination of these three mighty powers or forces 
which have set up themselves as the “One TRIUNE God,” will 
reveal that the first, Mammon controls the eye of man, and that the 
second, Intellectualism controls his reason, and that the third, Hu¬ 
manism masters his spirit, holding him everlastingly occupied by the 
reflections of his own great worth and meaning, easily persuading 
him to forget his glorious Creator. 

This god is the foster-parent of “The League of Nations" 
which is, as stated by Ex-President Wilson, the child of democracy 
and the war. He, this triune god, being instrumental of gathering 
the wise rulers of the grand modern world together in a world 
assembly, which again is secretly directed, by an unknown super¬ 
government, which in due time and season will be boldly presided 
over by the great “one," the long sought one, the magnificent “super¬ 
man." This “assembly” is the god's guaranteed policy of “peace,” 
while, in its two years ruling it has proved its total unwillingness 
and inability to give peace, or subdue the war god. Under cover of 
a “peace program" this most wise and augu$t body enthrones or 
dethrones kings, admits new members and countries to its assem¬ 
blage, and shuts its doors to not “desired” applicants, it changes 
boundaries according to its wisdom or ambition, creates kingdoms 
or dissolves them, plays with the nations as a cat plays with a yet 
living bnt badly frightened mouse and expects the earth-dwellers to 
be very jubilant about this splendid democracy which rules so 
autocraticaly the democracy which does not exist. This League of 
Nations which prattles about peace is in reality no more desirous 
for peace than the once glorious Hague Assembly of “crowned 
heads,” who broke their covenants as soon as their idol temple was 
glittering in the eyes of a God Who was despised by the rulers of 
that day and Who is now ignored by the very subjects of these 
magnificent war lords. 


The past, the present, and any future world-assembly of “wise” 
men may prattle about peace, everlasting peace, it shall not be 
granted to either one. The modern world, as we have shown; is 
nothing but the “loam and iron” condition upon which king Nebu- 
chadnezar saw his magnificent political image with its “golden head" 
reared up. The ten toes of mud and iron represent the Christian 
nations which “do not mix” although they and their kings mingled 
themselves with “the- seed of man,” and therefore peace and har¬ 
mony, love and good will be far from them, and if they 'think and 
magnify themselves to have arrived at an established unity in spite 
of heaven, then a hasty destruction will disprove their wisdom and 
dispel their foolish delusions and their false -theories. This is the 
unwonted and plain statement of Scripture, which has been proved 
once and again, and which shall be found unfailingly true and cor¬ 
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wise men may brag' and boast about peace, their own actions con¬ 
tradict even their own unsound statements and baseless guarantees. 
For, we read in the “National Republican” of December 4, 1920 
under the caption “The League of Nations” the following: “The 
League of Nations its assembly in session at Geneva for the purpose 
of enforcing “world peace," drops hope of “world disarmament 
plan, and instead, proposes the creation of an “international” army 
and “new” weapons of warfare." 


Yes, the League of Nations in its boastful element of “man 
exaltation” faithfully expressed and represented in the glowing 
term of “The Federation of Man” is one of the many voices which 
demand an attentive ear, as it exhibits itself as a “savior ’ of the 
world. If Jesus had not forewarned us that “in the last days 
many would come and say: “Here is the Christ," we might have been 
at a loss what to think of this wonderful human invention, but now 
we may fully realize and comprehend that this “voice,” loudly call¬ 
ing, demonstrates the power of deception to which Christ alluded, 
and this is absolutely so! Christ makes no mistakes ! 


Another “deliverer" crying, “Here is the Christ," is the voice 
of the “Inter Church World Movement,” which, with a sweet, 
melodious voice accompanied by the strains of discordant Mammon 
sung as a siren so explicitly: “Here is the Christ." 


This is the second attempt to harmonize the “isms," the first 
being made during the World’s Fair held in Chicago in the year 
1893. This movement was known as the “World's Parliament of 
Religion." Both movements are in themselves deliberate schemes 
to dissolve heretofore recognized principles and standards which 
once were dear enough to be defended by life itself, while they are 
now discarded and considered void and meaningless. At this par¬ 
ticular World's Parliament of Religion marvelous denouncement of 
“Faith" thrilled the hearts of the audiences. Christians, heathens, 
and semi-christians, religious and irreligious alike agreed as to one 
thing, namely to deny the salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. 
All sects, cults, professions, systems, denominations were present, 
with the possible exception of a few ; and it was positively clear, 
there were no sinners, and therefore Christ was not needed, but holy 
people were gathered there who were cock sure that the redemption 
of the world and of mankind was a feature worthy the greatness of 
MAN. 


The second attempt at unification of “faith” or rather say 
“faithlesness” came from never heretofore thought of quarters, for 
who could conceive of the idea that “unrighteous Mammon” would 
unexpectly become so extremely pious as to forward a scheme which 
would unite religion? And still, nothing less than that was at¬ 
tempted. Nineteen years after the World Parliament of Man held 
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again was called together and its pretentious leader represented 
Mammon (reformed) graciously boasting in the “Carpenter from 
Nazareth and the Great Master." And, as was to he expected nearly 
all “isms bowed in reverence their heads before the sweet singer, 
whose only aim seemed to center in self preservation, realizing 
Mammon's late work and the threatening consequences. World 
religion at this moment is suspicious of this ungallant monster of 
hypocracy which came forward arrayed as a “savior* 7 of the world. 

In the near future the modern world may expect religion mov¬ 
ing forward from yet stranger quarters from where not many would 
expect a “religious wave" possible. The great war, besides awaken¬ 
ing Mammon's appetite, gained another object and victory. While 
the great Christian war was raging, mowing away the youth of the 
white races, man wondered at the grand slogan with golden lungs 
heralded over the length and breadth of the earth:—“Make the 
\\ orld Safe for Democracy." Did not the war accomplish what was 
desired and vet not wanted ? It did ! Behold the Russian Bolsheviki. 
Look at the Prussian democrats. If democracy in the Christian 
world, and bolsheviki in the heathen world is instrumental in de¬ 
throning the political kings, I inquire and ask, what will religion, 
what will and may KING Christ in heaven expect in the near future 
when the two movements have conquered trembling and back bone 
lacking religion ? Does not the signs of the times vividly point to a 
time when the power of politics, democracy, shall direct the pathways 
of notorious and sinewless religion? and so “politics” shall array 
itself as “Christ. 77 

Another “voice * 7 which, as a Godly trumpet, speaks sweetly to 
the pious world is the religious sect of “Christian Science," which is 
neither Christian nor scientific, but which, nevertheless, agrees so 
well with depraved human nature that within a few years a great 
part of the so-called Christian world is transferred and transfixed in 
this loveless system which has discarded love itself; and which now 
claims universal attention as one of the foremost “saviors’* of the 
world. 

Again our attention is fixed upon a movement which twenty- 
five years ago was, even by the modern world itself, doomed and 
damned and considered dead, although it was known to smoulder in 
the dark recesses of evil neighborhoods of cosmopolitan cities. But 
to-day great religious (?) leaders as Sir Lodge from England 
trample throughout this great country to enlighten as he thinks, 
mankind with the dark and gloomy spectre of Spiritualism. And, 
if ever a “voice” received attentive ears surely this voice may claim 
an unheard of amount of success, for it is claimed that a great per 
cent of Americans in all spheres of life are believers in and dreamers 
of the kingdom of spirits. The war released a myriad of evil spirits 
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tudes, breaking all religious fetters, are ready to believe the lie of a 
living connection between the dead and the living, between hell and 
earth and betwixt earth and heaven. This nefarious doctrine of 
witchcraft, soothsaying, fortune telling abiya boards, spiritualism in 
its various forms, has pleased the majorities and the minorities so 
well that the enlightened Christian modern world seems to be the 
chosen place where evil spirits dwell amidst the disobedient children 
of man. who look upon “spiritualism ’ 7 as one of the great “saviors” 
of mankind. 

“Holy Paperism” or the so-called Christian press, church budget 
systems, and the “renovated” idea of “Christian political parties," 
with the “million Dollar funds” for schools and colleges are so 
many idols which the clergy of the so far purest church denomination 
has set up as dieties for which the faithful must in reverence bow 
and honor with gifts of esteem and sound sounding considerations. 

When Christ directed His disciples to “preach the gospel;” He 
undoubtedly never meant that Gods Pure Word should be hooked 
to a carriage pulled by commerce, and when, by His departure He 
spoke these words He never intended that they should be trans¬ 
lated into a system which coldly seeks the dollar, and which is 
absolutely foreign to Christ Jesus Who foresook His heavenly abode 
of riches and splendor to attach to Himself the meek and the needy, 
warning them who looked longingly to the perishable things of the 
earth. 

When Christ came upon the earth, the political world, just as 
now, was in a bad state in so far as it pertained to God’s people, the 
Jews, and yet Jesus Christ never thought it right and proper to 
better the sinful world with a Christian political party. His influence 
however purified politics as well as social and religious conditions. 
Again, when Martin Luther accepted Christ, the world surely was as 
bad as it is now, (I maintain it is worse to-day). Luther, following 
the footsteps of Christ preached the gospel of Christ, and, behold: 
Rome, the religious and political controller of the earth, came 
tumbling down, and politics as well as society and religion was 
purified, and Christ received the glory without any political pomp. 

But in our great modern world, the grand doctors of theology 
do wander about trying to better the world, that is religion, with the 
weak and obscure idea of “Christian politics.” 

When the “salt” becometh tasteless shall it savour the meal? 
Christ said: The Christian must be the salt of the earth, etc, the 
leaders of these so-called Christian political parties, undoubtedly 
intend to go “Christ one better” by trying to make the “earth” one 
big lump of salt. Christ and commerce, Christ and politics do not 
go together, and any attempt to make them kiss each other shall at . 
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ihe Christian is not here to better the world, but to protest against 
its unholy actions and preach the gospel, so that God's people may 
be found, and the world in the Judgment day shall have no excuse. 

The Million Dollar Fund, proposed by a certain college, is an¬ 
other “sign of the times" proving that the best and the purest of the 
pure is to-day yielding to sinister influences calculated to ensnare the 
church in the entanglement of Mammon. The aim is most deadly, 
and the “spirit" killing most sure. Not any amount of pious phil¬ 
osophy is able to make this hidious sin an object of glory in the eyes 
of the heavenly Bridegroom who does not want His beautiful Bride 
decked with the blood smeared and tear stained garments of the 
unrighteous Mammon. 

The attentive reader realizes perhaps that the writer has his 
mind centered upon a portion of a system which is generally called 
“The Calvinistic Church." The Calvinistic Church, once the most 
pure, is to-day besides herself and besides the gospel truth. If it is 
true, as was publicly announced by one of its foremost defenders 
that “Calvinism" has to keep up with the times; then it is true that 
Calvinism has forsaken the Bible. And, it is true! Calvinism is 
fundamentally wrong with her wide open doors for any strange bird 
which is willing to seek shelter and comfort at the shrines and altars 
erected in the sanctuaries for all modern inventions which bright 
and splendid men can devise and piously connect and link unto the 
beautiful name of Jesus Christ. (I am here speaking about Neo- 
Calvinism. Old and tried Calvinism never swerves with tides or 
times..) Neo-Calvinism, Russelism. Zionism, yea nearly all of the 
“isms" to-day deftly array themselves in “fine clothes and linen" 
prudishly muttering: “See here is the Christ." 

No doubt, but of all the voices thrilling and swelling in the 
“perfumed air of Christianity:" none produces so much effect as the 
harsh and then again so melodious voice of the Roman Catholic 
Church. 

Revelation 17 depicts a “drunken woman" upon a beast with 
seven heads and ten horns. This beast is the same as that of chapter 
13:1, and is also identified with the four beasts of Daniel 7. This 
beast in the revelation of God expresses the being of the political 
situation of the “last days" lasting more than 1500 years. To give an 
accurate description of the so-called Christian political world, God 
likens it by a “wild beast" denoting a malicious inclination to destroy 
and to devour, the ten horns signifying the divided condition of this 
political power, which compares and corresponds with the ten toes 
of king Nebuchadnezar’s image, which, as we have seen, were partly 
of iron and partly of loam, illustrating the fact that the political 
conditions of the “modern world" would be of such a nature as to 
make unification impossible although it should be very much desired 
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Upon this beast now, the Christian political state, John saw this 
wonderful woman, arrayed in purple and scarlet and decked with 
precious ornament. The color of both the woman and the beast is 
scarlet (red), the color of blood, signifying their murderous qualifi¬ 
cations and inclinations. This “woman” has an awful name written 
upon her forehead which reads: “Mystery. Babylon the Great, I he 
Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth." With this 
strange woman the kings of the earth committed fornication, she 
making the inhabitants of the earth drunk with the wine of her 
fornication. 

Any Bible student agrees that this woman represents the Roman 
Catholic Church, her daughters, represent the protestants, and all 
other churches are also called, like the mother, harlots. The adultery 
committed by mother and daughter is plainly indicated by the picture 
given, and consists in the fact that they all have forsaken God and 
delight to be resting in the arms of the so beautifully garbed world. 
The Roman Catholic Church has always longed to be the political 
world power, but anyone studying Calvinism and any other “ism'’ 
perceives that that they also stretch forth unholy hands to the ap¬ 
petizing paradise apple, politics, going the catholic church one better, 
with calling their schemes after the name of the HOLY Christ. All 
of the churches of to-day are stocked with a splendid assortment of 
gracious gods, stolen from the unconverted heathens, and made holy 
by the application of the name of Christ. 

But “the Mother of harlots” is the particular corrupter of kings, 
merchants, clergy and laymen. Her aim has always been, and is yet 
centered in the ambition to control all powers on earth as well as in 
higher spheres. She deems herself to be the only fit and appointed 
authority to rule religion as well as politics and visa versa. Diplo¬ 
macy, her advocate, she uses secretly and openly. 

Duplicity is her lawyer and ignorance is her general. She is 
shorn of her power, she is unseated, or expressed in Bible language, 
the “ten horns have hated her and have burned her with fire,” yet 
she is to-day as anxious as ever to regain what erstwhile she pos¬ 
sessed but did not belong to her. She is still as ugly as ever before, 
although she is seemingly very sweet, inexpressibly agreeable, and 
extremely tender, pious and sedate. She knows where she is and 
what she is about. She stands as a unit, while her perverted and 
petrified enemy, protestantism, represents a shattered front, broken 
wings and smashed ranks. And this cut up army, looks round about 
and behold, with broken wings and smashed ranks tries to “play” 
politics with this strenuous well harneshed surely aiming opponent, 
who beguiles the little contender with her soft and winning smile, 
playfully tickling her, prattling about being her “dear Triend.” 
What does the reader think, will any of the “isms” ever gain any¬ 
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in another form. Can God, the world, the Christian, can they all, or 
each separately ever realize any good from combining strength with 
this woman who is one of the greatest God-haters? Can Christ or 
the Christian derive benefit by a covenant made with the fiercest 
enemy of Christ? I, for one, take it for granted that such a thing 
is a colossal impossibility. 

Study the situation in small but magnificent Holland. Did the 
great Doctor Kuiper, who was an ordained clergyman, but who went 
into politics and succeeded at one time to be Holland’s Prime Min¬ 
ister, and who, with the help of Rome conquered some opposition, I 
inquire, did Doctor Kuiper really establish any good for Holland 
while at his death we find that a Roman Catholic priest, Dr. W. H. 
Nolens, was the organizer of a very strong minister)’, although he 
was indeed very wise by refusing to be Holland's Prime Minister, in 
self control seeking satisfaction by a seat in the Second Chamber. 
As it seems to me, Dr. Kuiper placed Holland apparently where it 
never intended to be as is plainly shown by her war of eighty years, 
against this very enemy. 

The late history of America is a wonderful story to read as we 
hehold Mr. Wilson, the late president, and his private secretary, Mr. 
Tumulty, the extra devoted son of the Catholic Church. Holland 
and American history shall disclose this most outstanding fact, that 
the so-called Christian peoples represented by their several “isms," 
did trust much more in the great conquering power of the Catholic 
church than in the all embracing power of the Almighty God, the 
God of our Fathers. 

Rome, surely is combining strength and cunning diplomacy and 
trickery to master the poor world along the very lines of her in¬ 
famous brutal regime of olden times. Shall she succeed? If I read 
Revelation \7 aright, it seems impossible that Rome ever again shall 
regain her lost power and her vanished glory. All the undue in¬ 
fluences brought to bear upon the corrupt power of the political 
situation of the modern world shall not avail Rome anything. Our 
observations in this chapter plainly bespeak the fact that the Mother 
of Harlots shall be magnificent and very powerful, at the same time 
revealing that “the political power" of the “ten" kings shall take her 
glory and power away, and, does not history tell the story? Where 
is the political power of Rome to-day? It is not at Rome, that is 
not in the Roman Catholic church, nor does it rest with its Pope. 
She has once been earth’s greatest ruler, she has been powerful and 
magnificent. She is it still in a certain measure but her greatness 
and glory is departed, she is “eaten and burned with fire." 

Rome, as she is to-day, shall never rule the earth again, her 
struggles for control shall all be in vain. She might he yet supreme 
in a few countries, she might be wide awake and on the alert to 
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most within her grip, it shall 'be snatched away from her by hands 
possibly yet ruder and blunter and even more brutal than her own. 
There is a power rising, an uncontrollable power, a power as secret 
as it is wicked, a power as fearful as it is crafty. This power may 
overcome Rome, make friends with her in order to gain its ends, and 
then undo her as she has been undone, and as she has undone others, 
hundreds of others, many times, and manifold better than herself. 
To-day almost all things are in the clutches of this power. It makes 
and breaks kings, dominions, and countries. It is the almost uni¬ 
versal recognized supreme power which controls man and man’s 
handiwork, and which now aims to control God and His handiwork. 
A student of the times will undoubtedly understand that the writer 
refers to “Secret Organization,” with its ugly head, Free-Masonry.” 

The next chapter is devoted to a study of this fast gaining 
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN 

The Most Promising’ Redeemer, Secret Societies. 

Then if aU y man s h a u say unto y 0U> ^ j lcre - s 

the Christ, or there; believe it not. Math 24:23. 

The zvise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and 
taken, lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and 
' what wisdom is in them? For, behold, I zvill send ser¬ 

pents, cockatrices amoung you, which zvill not be 
i charmed, and they shall bite you, said the Lord. Isaiah 

8 : 9 , 17 . 

Then these presidents and princes assembled together 
to the king,—and said,—King Darius,—establish a royal 
statute, and make a firm decree, that whosoever shall 
ask a petition of any God,—save of thee, etc. Daniel 
k 6:6, 7. 

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, 
whose height was threescore cubits and the breadth there¬ 
of six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the 
province of Babylon. Daniel 3:1. 

And after the league made with him he shall zvork 
deceitfully; for he shall come up and shall become strong 
with a small people. Daniel 11:23. 

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that 
is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God 
sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he 
is God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4. 

And deceiveth them that dwell upon the earth by the 
means of those miracles which he had power to do in the 
sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell upon the 
earth that they should make an image to the beast, zvhich 
had the wound by the sword, and did live. Rev. 13:14. 

And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their 
pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. 

Rev. 16:11. 

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1 

It is generally conceded that Free Masonry is the parent of all 
Secret organism. Masonry claims to have its origin from the 
building of king Solomon’s temple, which, perhaps maybe correct, 
but if this is so, then its founders were heathens, assuredly not 
Solomon or Israelites. 

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the tower of Babylon, which I will not dispute, as it was the proper 
place and time to start secret movements, which kept abreast of the 
times, finally developing in its stage of perfection of which the 
modern world is so apt to brag. 

Secretness stands over against openheartedness. It is obvious, 
secretism hates light, it abhors to be exposed. Light and darkness 
do not fuse, neither does the truth and the lie, openness and secret¬ 
ness. One upon the throne dispels the other. Both come from dif¬ 
ferent sources. The one springs forth out of the fountain of life, 
the other out of the well of death. 

Scripture reveals that the Christ came with the light of heaven, 
which shone brilliantly in the gospel of the openhearted truth, while 
his opponent, satan, came with the gloom of hell, fused in the gospel 
of the lie covered by secrecy. This illustrates the foundation and 
origin of secretism. 

In order to study secret organizations properly, we shall discuss 
the five following questions: 

1. What is Secret organism? 

2. What does it say of itself ? 

3. What does it purport to be? 

4. What is its aim? 

5. What is its success? 

What is Secret Organismf The modern world is filled with 
opposing things, ideas and powers. None of the each other opposing 
ideas, things or powers are able to exist at the same time and place. 
For instance: Light and Darkness. Strong and Weak. Peace and 
War. Water and Fire. Land and Sea. Rich and Poor. Humble 
and Proud. Clever and Dull. 

We have observed that secret organism represents the kingdom 
of darkness, and we admit that the kingdom of darkness cannot at 
the same time occupy the kingdom of light. And this is just what 
this kingdom claims it represents. To prove its misleading boast, it 
avails itself of the Word of God. It is well known that by initiations 
of new members the Bible is laid before them, they take an oath of 
“secrecy" with the one hand upon Scripture. This the ignorant, 
the unsuspecting holds as a guarantee to a fraternal and God like 
brotherhood, whose aim is above suspicion. Soon the studious 
brother will detect that there is not the least testimony regarding 
Christ, his cross, or sin, or heavenly things in Free Masonry. 

Scripture says: anybody having the light will testify of it, let¬ 
ting it shine round about him. As to the fact that the Bible and other 
holy things have a place in the secret society hall, permit me to call 
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Revelation 12 pictures the dragon “satan” in heaven having 
seven heads and ten horns. It is generally understood that “seven” 
represents the fulness of the eternal God, as is shown in Revelation 
5 :6. The number “ten,” depicts the world, the wicked, corrupt sin¬ 
ful world. Therefore, this picture shows the devil appearing upon 
the earth as—the angel of light, Lucifer. Son of the morning. 
Isaiah 14:12. Satan, as is well known, never desists to practise his 
old tricks, and with sacred truth in his hands, or, in other words, with 
the light from above in his clutches he appears in the secret society 
hall as “the angel of Light” but is in reality the magnificant imposter. 

Let all what comes in the name of Jesus, and shows itself noth¬ 
ing else but craftiness, which seeks self ; take heed of this picture, 
and let also the so-called “'Christian Political Parties’ 7 remember 
that, if their righteousness is not better than that of secret societies; 
its lamps shall be proven to be torches of obscure darkness. 


What docs it say of itself? Recently the writer discussed with 
a friend the merits of the Catholic church. He claimed that the said 
church anulled the laws of the land. To this I agreed but held that 
there were others who were even more bold to disregard the laws. 
Being asked as to these parties, I inquired into his connection to 
masonry. Learning that he was a Mason it became a very un¬ 
pleasant duty to inform him that I regarded Masonry as the culprit 
I had in mind. Not being able to understand this, I reasoned with 
him in the following manner. Masonry allows her members sexual 
intercourse with wives and daughters of non-members, but prohibits 
such with the wives and the daughters of members. Also, if a 
brother mason commits a crime it is the duty of the other masons to 
protect him against the law of the land.. In both instances Masonry 
uproots the laws of God and of man making them void and of no 
effect. 

The above indicates the inclinations of Masonry, its hidden thot 
expressing its exaltation above all what is called God and Man. 
This, hidden thot is frequently met in the suggestion of ideas ad¬ 
vanced to the foolish, ignorant and weak church member, that this 
“gracious brotherhood” represents the “ideal church” and does re¬ 
place the “unreal” church. 

With such statements, with the Bible in their halls, and its titles 
wherewith they name each other; Masonry seeks to pass as a re¬ 
ligious body, although its main objects are obvious the secular. 
Masonry has in the latter years set itself up ag a grasping power, 
vehemently and strenuously competing with Rome for the mastery 
of the world. How much Masonry had'to do with the world war, is 
rather a point of speculation and a subject of study, and perhaps no 
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placed upon its broad shoulders. This fact is certain, that at the near¬ 
ing close of the inhuman struggle, Masonry predicted that it would be 
a great factor in the coming peace negotiations. It has been circulated 
in the Press that Kaiser William claims he was dethroned by Mason¬ 
ry, for the only reason that he did not belong to any secret organiza¬ 
tion. How much truth there is in this statement, we do not know, 
but this is sure, Masonry sets itself up as an advocate of peace, but 
if the secret chambers could expose the truth, Masonry would not 
be found to be the sweet angel it delights to represent and to honor. 

Before we close this particular point of study, we must meditate 
upon another comparison between light and darkness, between 
Christ and Masonry. The Bible is our authority that Jesus Christ 
came to seek the poor, the maimed, the weak, the lost, the straying, 
the discarded, while we have innumerable proofs about us that 
Masonry seeks the rich, the healthy, the strong, the renown, the 
gallant, the honorable, and that its great ones are the magnificent 
ones of the world, its rulers, its kings and its vassals. In these few 
points it is more or less shown what secret organism says of itself, 
and our next point in order is now: 


What docs it purport to be? In the foregoing we became ac¬ 
quainted with the fact that the rich and the powerful of the earth 
constitute the soul, the backbone and the essence of Masonry, con¬ 
trolling perhaps all, at least nearly all of the so-called Christian 
nations. They make and they break the law. deeming themselves 
masters exalted above subscribing to their own commandments. In 
some cases they pass laws calculated to ensnare an easily yielding 
opposition, sometimes they find the opposition stronger and even 
able to overcome their political plotting. 

A reader of Scripture is aware of the fact that such conditions 
are very similar to conditions prevailing in the regimes of the kings 
of Babylon and of the kings of the Medes and Persians. There it 
also was a secret council of evilplotters which plunged the world 
into calamities or destroyed the peaceful existence of their own civil 
government, people and subjects and nearly always with a tendency 
to destroy the people of the Lord. The prophet Daniel in his sixth 
chapter exposes such a political plot, planned by the powerful rulers 
to destroy Daniel and his pre-eminence. This plot was a political 
frame up, mixed with religion. 

The “modern world” then consisting of the powerful kingdom 
of the Medes and Persians, who, under their king Cyrus had just 
conquered Babylon mixed politics and religion in order to undo the 
Lord of heaven. We see these plotters fail landing in the place 
where they intended to lead Daniel. If their bold and wicked 
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Daniel, and because Daniel stood in the great strength of Jehovah, 
\\ ho to-day is yet the same, no Christian should ever fear the entic¬ 
ing snares of the magnificent political and religious world-plotters, 
knowing that God shall everlastingly, uphold the man who fully 
trusts in Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth, Who considers 
His enemies lighter than a speck of dust upon the balance. To-day, 
the lords of the magnificent modern world hatch their schemes and 
plots along different lines. The pious world of to-day tries to 
ensnare God's people in religious plots which are worked out in 
politics. Mighty efforts the rulers of to-day make to discredit God. 
Bold schemes are schemed to dethrone the Almighty. The plots are 
deeper now than ever before, for the wisdom has enlarged itself, 
and the rulers are closer connected than ever before. To pluck God 
from His seat many and beautiful excuses are given. Behold the 
wise rulers in conclave at Geneva. Wonderful laws, beautiful 
measures, bright commandments, fine regulations, great statutes, and 
strange precepts may erelong be the joy and the hope of a broken 
down world, which is prepared to fling the last vestige of the re¬ 
membrance of God far from it. The plot is secret, and many a 
plotter does not understand the meaning of it all. Yes, in Geneva 
where the pure came from, from that same Geneva comes now the 
impure which rules to-day the entire Christian world, and what is 
not identified with this great last movement of the religious God 
opposing forces, will sooner or later perhaps be the magnificent king 
of it all. Yes, and how many non-secret society men have a seat 
with the rulers of this wise and yet so extremely imprudent gather¬ 
ing? O, Yes. Babylon is to day sitting at Geneva, and the king of 
Babylon is again in the “plain of Dura” erecting a colossal image of 
gold. What this image typifies we will try to make clear while con¬ 
sidering our next question. 


I 

What is its aim? 

We read in Daniel 3 that king Nebuchadnezar made an image 
of gold. The very first thing which we must remember is the fact 
that this particular king is the head of the confederated world of 
civilization of the long ago. This image was of a very proportions 
size, beautifully made, and, according to some a likeness of the king 
himself. Its purpose was obvious. Glittering and sparkling in the 
brilliant lustre of a glorious eastern sun, standing upright in its 
magnificence in the broad expanse of the plain of Dura, the king and 
his lords in splendor and pomp gathered about it, and the hordes of 
the people scattered about, all in due time, upon a sign of the king, 
bringing homage to this image is the very idea of “man” edification. 
And, of course, they who had a better -conception and a higher aim 
for exaltation, they, of course, found a place prepared for them 
which only deep sunken mankind could conceive. History repeats 


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itself. Behold Geneva. The kings of the earth, the great wise men. 
the lords of the glorious Christian civilized modern world are con- 
vened upon the memorable plain in the shades of the Alps consider¬ 
ing the establishment of an imperishable world empire. There is no 
king as yet, but when he cometh he will order the erection of a 
magnificent image which will put to shame the brilliant glory of old 
king Nebuchadnezar. The world is to-day again centralizing itself, 
as in the days of Nebuchadnezar, and as in the days of the building 
of the tower of Babylon. The head which was “wounded by a 
sword” is restored, and ‘dives.” (Read Revelation 13.) As soon as 
this king assumes command over kings, peoples, kingdoms and 
countries life shall be given to the image to which to-day the lords 
and masters of the modern world bring homage. To perceive a 
fleeting shadow of this king and his image let us consider our next 
question. 


Wliat is its success? 

Secret societies in their heathen rites do not only use the Bible, 
but their titles which they bestow one upon another are taken from 
the same holy writ. For instance: Priest, High Priest, Master. 
Grand Master, Deacons and Chaplains besides calling their halls 
temples, which shows their religious pretentions. That they, in 
their father. Masonry, have grasped the earth and its fulness, is 
plainly evident in the attitude of its great, rich and influential wise 
men who are now gathered together in conclave at Geneva pro¬ 
pounding the establishment of their coveted “Secret Empire" which 
they seek to found above the clouds. We have looked at this “secret 
empire,” or the League of Nations, from many various angles, and 
therefore deem it unnecessary to dwell upon it here. Only, perhaps, 
one question might be asked. Shall the League stand as it is now ? 

Many things seem to point to a change of “directing forces" 
within this wondrous achievement of men. As it is now; England. 
France and Italy control, while the main might and strength of the 
modern world, abhors to identify itself with it. America and Ger¬ 
many are yet standing out. Germany in part and America entirely, 
have never been under the power of the fourth beast of Daniel 7 like 
the Roman Empire, but, as it seems to me. they for their own reasons 
where plunged into this wicked conflict, the great war, awakened by 
the lust for gold and the glory of the Secret Empire, which, in 
Scriptural language, makes them partakers of the troubles and 
“great tribulations" of the last days. 

From indications we may gather that soon America and Ger- 
manv will be added to the grand total. Wilson’s idea of the League 
of Nations, as it stands now, was not wanted in America, but 
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sidered the very proper thing for which the poor world was so 
anxiously waiting, being nicely brought to “terms” by wise men like 
Root, ex-President baft, Hughes and others, they, being Masons and 
the “horns or blow pipes'’ of Wall Street, the International Banking 
houses presided over by the genius Mr. Morgan. There is the lurk¬ 
ing power of Japan, the boisterous bolsheviki of Russia, the bursting 
power of England, the sweet siren song of Humanism, the yellow 
danger, the immense riches of America, the ruin of Europe, the 
brotherhood of man, the secret power, and many more valuable 
reasons which will induce America to erelong bind its existence upon 
the corrupt piers of murdered and murderous Europe. It stands to 
reason also that America, which did so much to save the world and 
democracy, will this time expect something in return. And what 
shall that be? Can that be the presidency of the confederated Chris¬ 
tian world? Who can tell? We are at this moment not interested 
how and in what manner and shape “secret Masonry” shall accom¬ 
plish this, (for we perhaps are better enlightened why president 
Wilson’s policy of “Open covenants openly arrived at” failed more 
miserably than, maybe, Wilson himself) but we would like to see, if 
possible, a glimpse of the results of the mighty combinations. 

Revelation 13 speaks, as we have seen, of the making of an 
image. This particular image is unlike that of Nebuchadnezzar. It 
is not manufactured from precious gold in its material form, but 
from much more precious material consisting of intellectualism, 
spiritualism, gifts, heavenly endowments, religion, bound together 
into the so much meaning word HUMANISM. It is made after 
the likeness of the ruling king, as per example given by Nebu- 
chadnezar, repeated by the Roman Ceasars, and practised by the 
great type of Anti-Christ, Antiochus Epiphanus, (Math 24:15.) 
The great king, in accord with his predecessors caused all who be¬ 
lieved in him to receive his mark, (as secret societies practise), and 
whosoever refuses to worship his image (Humanism) he does kill, 
as did his forefather. 

It seems to me, secret organism will erelong control the religious 
world as well as it already controls the political world. The Catholic 
church seems to be its only enemy and opposition, Scripture says: 
“A kingdom divided cannot stand.” And, as long as satan is unable 
to re-unite the opposing parties into one so long this kingdom, the 
secret empire with its kings and image, cannot come, and as Scrip¬ 
ture says: “cannot have “LIFE.” How strange it may seem, I think 
that Masonry and the Roman Catholic church with its own secret 
orders, will, at the appointed time unite into that formidable an¬ 
tagonistic organization which will bring forth the great liar, the 
super-human man, who is identified in Scripture as the Anti-Christ, 
who will try to chase Cod from His seat, meaning to establish his 
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at his pleasure, for that again is the only aim this person has, and he 
uses God's own best and purest production to gain his end. 

The foregoing needs no explanation. Scripture reveals the 
fact, that, in the latter days, the days of our beautiful civilized 
Christian modern world will be so utterly dark, so wrought up in 
“secretness” that the whole world shall degenerate, collapse, and 
apostatize completely from God and His commands, and the 
cowardly doctrine of Humanism, and the blurred religion of man- 
edification will have so totally demoralised the masses as well as the 
classes that God is bound to come to put a stop to the unspeakable 
and horrid blasphemy. Yet to-day, secret organism, and especially 
Masonry comes boldly forward with its pretentious claim, “See here, 
here is the Christ," and at the same time denies God and His Son, the 
Christ. 

In the next chapter we shall again come in contact with secret 
organism which we wish to behold from different points of view. 







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CHAPTER FIFTEEN 

The Anti-Christ. 


And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the com¬ 
pany of priests murder in the way by consent; for they 
commit lewdness. Hosca 6:9. 

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will 
be like the Most High. Isaiah 14:14. 

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the 
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and 
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Even 
him; whose coming is after the working of Satan with 
all power and signs and lying wonders. 2 Thes 2:8, 9. 

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the 
Christf He is anti-Christ that denieth the Father and 
the Son. 1 John 2:22. 

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the 
Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise 
false prophets, and shall show great signs; insomuch 
that, if it were possible, they deceive the very elect. 
Math 24:23, 24. 

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, 
to blaspheme his name , and his tabernacle, and them that 
dwell in heaven. And it ivas given unto him to make war 
with the saints, and to overcome them; and power was 
given him over all kindred, and tongues and nations. 
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count 
the number of the beast for it is the number of a man; 
and his number is Six hundred three score and six. (666.) 
Revelation 13:6, 7, 18. 

And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, 
every stone about the weight of a talent; and men 
blasphemed God because of the plague of hail; for the 
plague thereof was exceeding great. Rev. 16:21 

And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the 
eighth and is out of the seven, and goeth into perdition. 
Rev 17:11. 


And the beast was taken, and with him the false 
prophet that wrought miracles before him, with zvhich he 
deceived them that hath received the mark of the beast, 
and them that worshipped his image. These both were 
cast alive into a lake of fire burning zeith brimstone. 
Rev 19:20. 


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Scripture describes the culmination of iniquity and unrighteous¬ 
ness bound together as “the man of sin" and therefore it seemingly 
lavs stress upon the fact that one person shall represent the whole 
spirit and all forces of all whatsoever opposes God. This man, no 
doubt, shall be intellectualism personified holding the reins of the 
wishes and opinions of the majorities in his hands, bending them to 
his purpose. If we behold him in the light of Scriptures, we see him 
a fearful, wicked, sinister, merciless, hard hearted, evil man, but if 
we glance at him with an intellectual eye void of the fear of God, he 
will appear a very shrewd, wise, learned, able man, very pious, in¬ 
deed, a great Christian who is able to mislead the clergy and Chris¬ 
tendom in general. Christian religious publications and the pulpit 
shall glory in “the wonderman” who shall bring peace, prosperity 
and harmony to the people who are in the uttermost despair for these 
so very much desired and coveted attributions. None of these shall 
think it worth while to perceive that he is nothing but a vehement 
God and Christ denier and a thoroughbred God hater. It seems to 
me he shall be a Master Brother Mason, coming in the full power of 
Secretism, having the sanction of the church, the Roman Catholic 
church included. 

But who is this man ? 

The first eight verses of Revelation 13 speak of a beast coming 
out of the sea. The four beasts of Daniel 7 are identified in this one 
beast. What Daniel saw in four, John beheld in one. That this 
beast comes out of the sea means that the peoples of the earth pro¬ 
duce it. or in plain language, this beast is nothing else but the very 
political situation of our boasted Christian civilization, or, the beau¬ 
tiful modern world, whose wise heads are now at council at Geneva 
to fulfil Revelation 17:17. It is obvious, the attitude of these great 
counselers is such, and circumstances are made to appear in such a 
light that men and things comprehend the need of a person who is 
able to lead the world out of the besetting difficulties into which they 
have placed themselves. All of them shall gladly avail themselves of 
the opportunity to present an able man with absolute control over all 
things, conditions and places, they shall willingly serve him in their 
capacities of rulers of kingdoms and dominions, hoping thereby to 
be delivered from their own cunning, deceit and lying. This man, 
or such a man as soon as he appears shall be honored by the great 
wise men of the earth as the “President of the Confederated World,” 
or some title fitting the high office. 

To have a look upon this president, king or potentate, kindly 
read carefully Revelation 13:11 to the end. 

In the eleventh verse St. John informs us that he beheld a beast 
coming up out of the earth, which had two horns, like a lamb, and he 
spake as a dragon, (satan). 







Our attention is arrested by the fact that this beast comes out of 
the earth, while the first beast of the same chapter came out of the 
sea. The earth, it is true, denotes “solidness” in opposition to sea 
which pictures “instability." By “solidness" we comprehend; in- 
tellectualism, religion, culture, civilizatio'n, Christianity which, with¬ 
out God ; produces HUMANISM, or MAN—edification. Out of 
these beautiful inventions of mankind now comes this beast, man, 
setting forth the fact that he has a firm and full grip upon these 
classifications. 

The second thing boldly standing out by the appearance of this 
beast, and which calls for our special attention, is the fact that he has 
“two horns." “Horns" in Scripture always allude to power, might, 
strength. This beast has two, and St. John adds, they look like the 
horns of a lamb. Evidently, the great Revealer must have seen “a 
lamb with horns" before, and now he calls our attention to what he 
has told us in chapter 5 verse 6. In that verse John describes “a 
slaughtered lamb having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the 
seven spirits of God.” 

In “seven” is no death. Henoch the seventh from Adam walked 
with God, and., was no more. The seven horns of the slaughtered 
lamb (Christ) are symbolic of the seven powers of God. God is 
complete in seven, seven is holy, full, seven is God. This beast is 
an imitator of Christ. He needs therefore “horns” (power) but he 
does not need seven no, he is full, complete in “two,” and therefore 
he has only two horns. These two horns represent the two great 
world powers whereby man rules the earth. He, the beast has these 
upon his head, showing that these two world powers will be centered 
in him. And which are these two great powers? What else can 
they be but the State and the Church, or, politics and religion, or, 
yet closer identified The League of Nations and the Interchurch 
World Movement? In due time and season, the coming great man 
shall sway his mighty scepter in the political world as well as in the 
religious world, as is plainly indicated in the foregoing and proved 
by Revelation 17:12, 13 and 17. This is in short the unwholesome 
story of the apostate church representing the catholic as well as the 
protestant denominations, and of the blind and foolhardy world. 

God has revealed unto us in His Word seven names or iden¬ 
tification marks for this above alluded to beast (man), who will, 
when he comes, trv to unseat God Almighty to show fallen mankind 
that “MAN is God.” 

The king of the modern world, who in due season shall sway 
his scepter of universally acknowledged authority over the so-called 
Christian world, has seven names, which is a token that he also 
comes as an angel of light, deceiving by the “seven" the people who 
will glorify him and exalt him as the MAN-GOD, but there is only 
one mishap about this seven: he is identified with “ten." the number 
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Scripture itself calls attention to these seven names, and there¬ 
fore it behooves us to enumerate them here: 

(1) . The Second Beast, Rev 13:11. 

(2) . The Number of Man, Rev 13:18. 

(3) . The Little Horn, Dan 7:8. 

(4) . The Man of Sin, 2 Thes 2:3. 

(5) . The Eighth King, Rev 17:11. 

(6) . The False Prophet, Rev 19:20. 

(7) . The Anti-Christ, 1 John 2:18. 

To properly meditate upon this coming great man, of whom 
Jesus, to His not believing church, said: “One is coming in his own 
name, him ye shall believewe shall endeavor to unfold a few 
thoughts, or facts, about the seven names, which, considered to¬ 
gether will illustrate the abnormality and depravity of deep fallen 
mankind, with its complete and absolute hatred of God, and its ab¬ 
surd pride and envy which the Supreme Ruler confounds at the very 
moment mankind thinks to have gained the coveted thing for which 
it has labored, yearned and fought the entire period of the six 
thousand years of its existence. 

(1). THE SECOND BEAST. 

A beast is assuredly unfit company for God or men, and God, 
by picturing, the Anti-Christ as a beast demonstrates His abhorance 
of the “impure and unclean,” but mankind does consider this person 
the brightness, the fulness and the glory of “the race,” as is shown 
in Revelation 17:12, 13, 17, where this person receives the full 
political power, the pomp and prestige of the beautiful Christian 
modern world. .These verses simply illustrate the fact that the time 
will be when the people shall believe in the political State, or in 
“democracy.” It is as if \Ve hear the grant slogan of the great war 
yet ringing in our ears “Make the world a safe place for DEM¬ 
OCRACY.” And, did not the entire so-called Christian world put 
their kings aside, setting up a federacy of nations ? This, of course, 
was the work of said beast. Besides producing such an immense 
state as “the brotherhood of man ;” he also is instrumental of letting 
“fire” come down from heaven. This wonderful fire, I think, con¬ 
ducted the poor world to the gracious glory she now beholds in her 
pretty “universal democracy.” Did anybody ever see more fire upon 
this world than the fire burning in the great world war? Did this 
beast not make the people say: “This is a righteous war?” Was it 
not miraculous that the people said this while they hated this very 
thing in their very souls with a hatred words cannot describe? Was 
it not a much meaning wonder that even the churches, the pastors 
proclaimed this inhuman slaughter of the innocent, a righteous war? 
Do you not consider that a “miracle?” Think once. Look at this 
carnage of man, the conflagration of the whole earth, is it not a 
wonder, by second thought, that any man ever dared to call this 
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The great world war was enacted in the sight of the first beast, 
the colossal, magnificent modern world, or, the old Roman Empire, 
which now is in its last state of decay, representing the Germanie- 
Slavonic Empire, which is the “seventh head" or the head which 
“wounded with the sword'" was healed, which again refers to the 
restoration of the old Roman Empire under one head. This head, 
wise and pious, counsels the “earth dwellers" to make an image, and 
really an image of himself, as his pre-Ceasars used to do. Further¬ 
more we read that this beast has power to give life to this very 
image, the image representing his own reflection in Masonry which 
is nothing but pure HUMANISM. Like as his example, king 
Nebuchadnezar, he also flings the ones who do not obey his com¬ 
mands in the oven burning with a very hot fire. (In our next chap¬ 
ter we intend to dwell upon this point a little longer). 

Verses 16 and 17 of this very interesting chapter of Revelation 
13 inform us that the “subjects” of this beast receive an identifica¬ 
tion mark. Identification marks are the symbols of secret societies 
whereby member recognizes member, and by this mark do they now 
nearly control commerce, finance, industry and whatsoever is worth 
while of their ambitions. They actually do the selling and the buy¬ 
ing, monopolising all commodities of life, and it is indeed as much 
as an impossibility to amount to anything anywhere without this 
mark. This beast accomplishes this, which is in glowing contrast 
of the way of God, who says to His people: “Lo, every one that 
thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come 
ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and 
without price. Isaiah 55:1. Surely, this is cheap, easy, rich, sweet 
and accommodating and is in flagrant opposition to the abnormal 
prices charged for things which have no value whatsoever, and are 
notwithstanding controlled and monopolised by the powers ruling in 
secretness, who live in excess and prohibit the poor to receive their 
earned and square deal. 

Christ himself calls our attention to these hard things and this 
bad state of afifairs, for St. John says in the 18th verse: “Here is 
Wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of this 
beast; for it is the number of a man ; and his number is six hundred 
three score and six, (666). Number 666 is the “second name” which 
we intend to consider for a moment. 


(2) THE NUMBER OF MAN. (666) 

In preceding pages we saw that the number “seven" represents 
the fulness of God. The Lord says here: “Man is 6 and again 6 and 
6 again. 

Six is nearly seven, and still it is not seven and can never attain 
to seven. This is the fact that the Lord, it seems to me wishes to 
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Man is so apt to consider himself extremely important, and, as the 
highest of God's creatures; he, assuredly has reason a plenty to 
glorify, but not in himself, but in his God alone. 

When Lucifer, the Son of the morning, the angel of light, re¬ 
fused to bring homage to “The Angel of the Lord' 5 The Son of God 
and was therefore thrust from his High Estate, he, knowing parts 
of God’s plan wandered throughout the earth and found Adam and 
Eve in all their beauty in the just created wonderful glorious garden. 
Being himself fallen from God, he schemed the fall of these pretty 
beings also, intending to injure the Most High and ensnaring man¬ 
kind into a wicked plot of co-operation against God, their Maker. 
To accomplish his ends he studied innocent man and soon found his 
weak spot. Appearing to Eva in his wonderful garb of “the angel 
of light,” with his heavenly voice appealingly inquiring of her re¬ 
garding the words of their great Creator; he succeeded in touching 
the snare of jealousy which awoke the desire to be like unto God. 
As we have seen; God is seven, man was but little less, but he was 
six. Now, “so advised the seducer;” now Eva, take of this very 
tree which God forbade you to touch, and believe me you will be 
like unto God, that is, seven. We know the history, God came down 
and made it soon very plain that they were “six” just the same. So 
horrid, wicked jealousy, the sin of the devil, is also the sin of man¬ 
kind, which is humanism in its first and in its last stage. This pic¬ 
ture unfolds the first “6” of the three sixes. 

Let us now have a look upon “6” number two. 

The temptation upon the mountain is a brilliant illustration of 
satan’s ideas and intentions. O how he desires to conquer God; O 
what a deep founded scheme to unthrone the Almighty. He even 
imagines himself as the One able to dispose of kingdoms accord¬ 
ing to his will. Yes, and he is king of the world. O that God’s 
people could see that a little better. Yes, he is king of the world, but 
not of God, nor of His kingdom, and he is king of the world as 
long as it lasts. But upon the said mountain, he introduces himself 
to Jesus, the man, as number seven, hoping to have his “paradise” 
success even at this late date. 

Realizing his utter failure with Jesus, the man, he leaves Him 
and stirs up the entire civilized modern world of that time against 
this man Jesus Christ of Whom he is now sure that He is “The Son 
of the Living God,” or in our words, number “seven.” 

Listen to his clinging remarks to the great Roman Empire, the 
sweltering political power which conquered the earth. Behold how 
he glorifies them, how he tickles their pride, how cunningly he 
teaches them that they are the Supreme rulers of the world, and are 
therefore filled with and have attained political perfectness and 
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Listen to the philosophy wherewith he beguiles the wonderful 
learned Grecians, the world of conquered “Intellectualism. 77 There 
is no people upon the globe like they. They are wise, learned, cul¬ 
tured, refined, civilized. All of the world look feverish to them for 
ideas, for expressions, for meditations, for things no one else ever 
thought of or was able to think of, to conceive and to bring forth. 
\ es, he says: In your philosophy, you have regained the God's 
mark, you are complete, there is no blemish upon you, you are num¬ 
ber seven. 

Listen to the theology with which he inflames the simple minded, 
the self loving, the prattling, the unsignificant, the objectable and 
objecting sons of Abraham, the miserable Jewish race! O, but here 
he is in his element, religion, religion. Nothing, no nothing upon 
God's splendid earth, no nothing is, and nothing can compare with 
religion. Religion, O religion, in religion alone can man climb up 
to God. In religion man may speak with his Maker, may abide with 
Him, may see Him, may glorify Him, and, O God, how strange; 
may curse Him. In religion, yes in religion alone is it thought 
possible to climb above the clouds, fly into heaven and fling the 
Almighty from the throne. And behold, that is the aim of satan, 
and lo, that is the aim of man. Satan imitator of God, and man 
imitator of satan. How fearful and O my God; how true! Here 
with the Jews, here he shall, after all conquer the one who refuted 
him upon the mountain. O, but see how he magnifies these sons of 
Abraham, how pious they really are. “Look at Christ" he says: 
“He is only a dirty uncultured, religion-killing, miserable son of the 
carpenter of Nazareth," “He is a vile associate of stinking fishers." 
“He says He is God, and he is nothing but a blasphemer. 77 They are 
the children of Abraham and subsequently know things and religion 
better than a lowly prattler, who calculates to upset the rules, laws 
and regulations of the elders who are the powers to be according 
to the dictations of their great Moses, the law giver. See how he 
confounds their theology. Behold how he induces Israel to place 
itself above God and His Son their own, even their own Messiah. 
Did he succeed in making Israel believe that it was in all sincerity 
number seven ? Who is the man who doubts that ? And how did 
Tesus answer these three mighty pretenders for the honor of God? 
And how did Lie meet the charge of civilized society? Just as He 
was wont. He met these overawing, overbearing boasters by simply 
proving them that they were brawling, degenerated, baseless, slan¬ 
derous, ungodly, wisdom lacking people, fallen from God and there¬ 
fore not seven, but six, that is deprived mankind, but that He, and 
He alone was the bread of life, the manna from heaven, the Son of 
the living God, innocent, pure, holy, perfect, which is “seven." We 
know the story. In contempt they assembled and convened in 
Priest's palaces and in potentates courts to denounce the Holy One 
deeming- Him fit onlv for the cross of shame. Behold the joy of 







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hell, behold the bedlam of the earth. Christ dead. Christ buried. 
O what glory, but, lo, the gloom, the hopeless doom, the monstrous 
spector appearing unto them when Christ awoke the third day and 
smote death, hell and grave, conquering the enemy satan, the per- 
verter, the tempter of the mountain. Yes, O yes, hell knows and 
mankind can know that the resurrection proved Christ “seven” and 
men only “six.” 

Did satan and mankind take these lessons to heart ? O no. 
Behold “6” number three. 

The great war is the fulfilling of Psalm 2:1, and verse two is 
now in operation at Geneva, where the mighty leaders of mankind 
gather to set up and crown their chosen one king of the Christian 
civilized modern world. Guided and directed by his father, satan, 
he shall vainly attempt to reach heaven and dispose of God and of 
the Christ, imagining himself to be the proper and suiting god of 
man, who as “seven” shall rule supreme on earth as well as in 
heaven. But Psalm 2:4 says: “He that sitteth in heaven shall 
laugh, the Lord shall have them, (king and satan) in derision” 
placing them alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone, Revela¬ 
tion 19:20. This will undo the political world, will uproot intellec- 
tualism, will destroy false religion, which are bound together in 
Christian civilization. This act of God shall prove to satan and his 
followers that God is seven, and man “six hundred three score and 
six, or 666,” and that this last attempt to reach heaven along a self 
chosen path is futile, bringing upon man the awful wrath and the 
righteous condemnation of a provoked and indignant Judge. Three 
times having reached out to be God and three times to have failed, 
indeed man born of woman is only 666. 

The third name upon which we wish to reflect a few moments 
is the name of 

3. “THE LITTLE HORN.” DANIEL 7:8. 

This chapter begins, “in the first year of Belshazzar king of 
Babylon, Daniel had a dream.” Then it relates how he saw four 
great beasts come up from the sea. (peoples) Out of the sea, 
(heathen peoples) came these four wild beasts, or, four great and 
mighty, God opposing political States, Kingdoms or Empires. The 
first was a lion, (The World Empire of Nebuchadnezzar.) The 
second like as a bear. (The World Empire of Media Persia.) The 
third like a leopard. (The World Empire of Greece under Alex¬ 
ander the great) and, the fourth was such a fearful monster, such a 
terrible destroyer, and such an awful wild beast that he was unable 
to find under the wild animals anything approaching its fearfulness. 
This beast was the world empire of the Romans, or the kingdom of 
iron. Upon this ugly creature he beheld ten horns, showing that in 
the last stage this kingdom should be a divided kingdom, being split 
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the sixth head of the first beast of Revelation 13; slided over into the 
seventh head, or \\ orld Empire of the Germanic Slavonic kingdom 
at the taking of Rome by Odoacar, king of the Barbarian Goths, in 
the year 477 A. D. (The ten horns are identified with the ten toes of 
the image of king Nebuchadnezzar.) 

Daniel pays special attention to this fourth beast, and par¬ 
ticularly upon the “seventh head" upon which were ten horns and 
beholds the coming of a “little horn." Watching this wonderful 
little horn he saw it pluck up three of the other horns by the roots. 
T hese three horns were upon the seventh head, the Germanic Slav¬ 
onic Empire, or the kingdoms of our time. A few years ago, there 
were in Europe still three recognized crowned heads who had at 
least some semblance of kingly authority. Where are they to-day? 
Are they not “rooted up by the roots" by a mighty power in which 
we to-day recognize “democracy?" Is not the Czar of the Russians 
murdered, the Kaiser of Germany a wood splitter in Holland? and 
the king of Austria Hungaria, where is he? Daniel saw these three 
kings plucked up by the roots, denoting a very unkind act. Was 
the cry, Make the world safe for democracy," a peace trumpet? 
Was that great murderous war, the horror of the age a friendly 
transaction between the jealous parties who aspired to a “World 
Empire?" Did not the “little horn" have something to do with it? 
Even if he is as yet not, his spirit surely guides the “better getting 
world" to its destination at which he aims. Where does this little 
horn come from? Perceivable, he is the mightiest of these mighty 
horns, and yet he is called “little." That he is little, shows that he 
does not come from royal blood, like the others, but that he, even as 
his type, “Antiochus Epiphanus” comes from low origin. As¬ 
suredly he comes out of democracy, people’s rule, the half plus one, 
in which God has nothing to say, which now directs the world 
powers at Geneva, from whence to-day the world expects a great 
savior, the little horn, which will speak, and does speak great things 
against the Most High, wearing out the saints of the Most High, 
changing times and laws. These things are now in operation. Read 
the so-called “Higher Critics." Behold Humanism. Go to the 
courts and take notice how this spirit, the spirit of the little horn 
with the “eyes of man and a mouth speaking great things" annuls 
the first law of God—“marriage,” with the result that human beings 
live together as the beasts-of the field. Perceive the wizards, the 
soothsayers of which the country is full. O, democracy; bolsheviki. 
which is the same, O democracy, out of thee alone it is possible 
that this little horn can come forth! Democracv, people's rule, yes, 
and no GOD’S RULE at all. The “little horn” before he appears 
has his spirit preparing the way before him, in this he follows also 
the Christ. And that he is very successful even the church of to-day 
is witness. 

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4. THE MAN OF SIN. THESSALONIANS 2:3. 

St. Paul in the above quoted epistle explains to the church of 
Jesus Christ the presence of two opposing- armies battling for mas¬ 
tery. At the appointed time God would take one power out of the 
way, giving “evil" in its full force and capacity, an opportunity to 
manifest itself in “unrighteousness" revealing and blossoming forth 
in “The Man of Sin.” This shows that the Holy Spirit once given to 
the church would be taken away from the church because she her¬ 
self would apostatize so generally that it would not be possible for 
God to let His Holy Spirit longer dwell with the corrupt children of 
man. And is the church of Jesus Christ to-day not apostatizing in 
an awful manner? Did the church of Jesus Christ protest when one 
so-called great Doctor made a “Hero of Faith" of a minister of the 
gospel who discarded the pulpit for a position as editor of a milk 
and water proposition? Did the church raise one finger of warning 
when this so-called “servant of the Lord" was made a “Hero of 
Faith" when he had succeeded in gathering the dollars of the pious? 
Did the church say one, even one small word when the so much 
boasted of “God is with us” Christian publication proved to be 
nothing but “Flunky-dom ?” No. Why not? Because she has put 
herself into the whirlpool of worldliness. 

The “man of sin,” or, “the son of perdition" is an apostate of 
the church. He shall be the special appointed man by satan, who 
will see to it that he receives all the power on earth. Political 
power as well as religious power. The “lie” is his power, in op¬ 
position to the ”truth" of God. St. Paul beheld this lying power 
working, he calls it “the mystery of iniquity.” This mystery of 
iniquity has nearly conquered the entire Christian civilization, and is 
in our day gathering all strength to bring forth this man of sin who 
shall try to seat himself upon the throne of truth. The “mystery of 
iniquity” What else can it represent, what else does it specify but 
secret organism, Masonry? Does not Masonry elects itself upon the 
throne of truth setting to nought the church of the living God? and 
is to-day not so-called Christianity identified and dissolved into 
Secretism ? Does not Secretism oppose God ? Has Masonry not 
almost eclipsed religion? Is not Masonry religion? Does Masonry 
not deny God and His Christ? Is therefore Masonry not a lie? 
The Lie? This “man of sin” Paul says comes “after the working of 

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satan." Now who is satan? The king of the World, giving the 
kingdoms of the world to whomsoever he will, Luke 4:6. The man- 
murderer from the beginning, and the father of “The Lie.” So we 
perceive that through the lie, he prepares the kingdoms of the earth, 
and gives them to the by him appointed and crowned MAN. 

Just like as the “little horn” roots up three kings, before he 
appears, so does the “man of sin” (his spirit) reduce Christianity by 
apostatizing to a mere religious pretention which is willing to crown 
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1 he “falling away ’ period, long in preparation is the final state 
of apostacy represented by the “Laodicean church.” This church 
imagines itself rich, and does not know that is wretchedly poor. It 
is hot nor cold, just as its miserable leaders, the pastors, who declare 
themselves servants of the Lord, and who prove themselves “angels” 
which the Lord will spew out of His mouth, for they are hot nor 
cold, blind and naked, and in the truest sense of the word: “Blind 
leaders leading the blind.” Are these blind leaders, who as wander¬ 
ing stars flicker and glimmer in the heavens, able and willing to 
“prove the spirits" whether they are from God or not? Will they 
not rather glory in the “man of sin" when he as an extremely pious, 
wise, great leader appears before the world as the “king of peace?” 
Only he, who, by the grace of Christ has his eyes “anointed with 
eyesalve," he alone is able to comprehend the situation now in 
preparation. God may grant us this grace. 

The fifth name by which we intend to stand still is the name 
which denotes political pomp which speaks in : 

5. “THE EIGHTH KING.” REVELATION 17:11. 

The Patmos Seer reviewing the political situation sums up and 
says: “There are seven kings, five are fallen, one is, and one must 
yet come, and when he cometh, he must continue a short space, 
Revelation 17:10. We have named these seven kings once before 
to do justice to our study we are obliged to name them again. They 
are: “Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medea and Persia, Greece. These 
were fallen when John wrote this. One is: This is the Roman Em¬ 
pire in which time John lived, and the one, (then) yet to come, is 
the present Christian modern world, divided into ten, and known as 
the Germanic Slavonic Empire,” which appeared in the year 477, 
mentioned before, and which is at the same time the “broken head 
of one of the seven.” 

We beheld in the Roman Empire the fourth beast of Daniel, 
and in the ten horns thereof the split-up condition of the modern 
world, which England tries to stick together and enlarge into a 
titantic world Empire, reorganizing the old Roman Empire, heading 
the same with the old system of ONE Ceasar. Internationalism and 
humanism are the two main channels by which the Empire-builder 
is working. The old system improved according to modern rules 
and reorganized per advisement, enlightened civilization will, at its 
time, produce the so strongly coveted kingdom of the heavenly 
“Parliament of MAN, representing kingdom number eight, which 
shall have for its king a superman called here in our verse “The 
Eighth King,” which is called “beast” which goeth down into per¬ 
dition.” This beast or “king” is the same as spoken of in Revela¬ 
tion 13:11. The Christian world, our boasting modern world shall 
consider him an unconquerable potentate, singing his praises, glori¬ 
fying him saying: “Who is like unto this our great king? Who can 







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war against this valiant mighty Lord ? “worshipping him in their vain 
imagination of security and safety, which at the same moment they 
behold it is a tottering plastered whitewashed monument of failure. 
Verses 11, 12, 13 and 17 of this chapter 17 prove the truth of the 
above, and its doom is written in Revelation 19:17 to the end. The 
Eighth King represents the political power of the beast symbolized 
in one of the horns upon the beast of Revelation 13:11, the religious 
power being symbolized by the name of False Prophet, or the sixth 
name, which we now will consider. 

(6) THE FALSE PROPHET. 

The sixth name, “False Prophet” Revelation 16:13, Rev 19:20, 
Rev 20:10. 

Revelation 16:13 speaks of three “frog-like’' unclean spirits 
coming out of the mouth of dragon (satan), the beast, (the political 
state), and the false prophet (church). Reading further it is evi¬ 
dent that these three unclean spirits are “lying spirits,” speaking a 
social, political and religious lie intending to arrange these three in 
battle array against the Lord of Truth. 

The second beast of Revelation 13 is here called “false prophet.” 
specifying his religious inclinations. We observed him as “The 
Eighth King” ruling over the political world, and now, in opposition 
to the true prophet (Christ), he is the false prophet, (Anti-Christ). 

Christ is king, priest and prophet, and so is Anti-Christ, king, 
priest and prophet. AntLChrsit is king of the world, priest of his 
church, which he instructs regarding his image, and prophet who 
makes “fire” come down from heaven. In preceding chapters we 
have discussed these three features and therefore it does not appear 
to be necessary to dwell at any length upon it here. In his capacity 
as king he misleads politics, as priest and prophet religion, indicat¬ 
ing that the apostate church will not recognize him in his true light, 
no more than that the church refused to recognize the true prophet. 
Just as the church and its friend, the world, refused to attach them¬ 
selves once to the true prophet from heaven and abstained to honor 
Him and bring Him homage, so shall both of them now honor, obey 
and bring homage and bind themselves unto the false prophet from 
the earth who comes in his own name. The true church, or the 
awakened five virgins shall have no communion with nor part in the 
world system of man edification, but shall be gathered and go into 
the “marriage of the Lamb.” The Anti-Christ, false prophet of the 
“Inter Church World Movement*’ and “king of the League of 
Nations” is the “beast” with the two horns, symbolizing these two 
mighty powers, politics and religion. 

The seventh name which now appears to be in order to be con¬ 
sidered is the real name denoting absolute opposition to the Christ, 
the Son of the living God, and is therefore called Anti-Christ, 1 
John 2:1,8, 22. 






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(7) ANTI-CHRIST. 

I his person shall be considered by mankind the zenith of its 
glory. As a man opposing Christ he must be a very imposing per¬ 
sonality. The attributes of satan shall be at his command. The 
entire power of the world, political, intellectual, financial, religious, 
social, shall be in his hands, shall be at his mercy. As the “false 
prophet” he shall speak great things against the Almighty, Daniel 
11 :36. As priest he shall dictate the erection of an image Revelation 
13:15. As king he shall direct the battle against heaven, and as 
Anti-Christ he shall try to ascend above the clouds to dethrone the 
Creator of the Universe. His abnormal power shall be centered in 
“secretness,” called by Scripture “darkness.” He shall unite the 
church and the world giving this unity the doctrine of Humanism. 
His actions are in contrast with the actions and words of Christ. 
Was Christ a Jew; out of the Jewish Church? Anti-Christ shall be 
a Christian coming out of the Christian church. His rule shall be 
supreme, considered to be “super-human” and his word shall be law. 
In his regime the emptiness of the present shall be appalling, the 
burning of fear of the present will be intensified. Wholesale murder 
shall be god, billows of gloom shall overpower men, indignation and 
wrath shall eat the people, catastrophies shall depress the multitudes, 
tribulations shall drown the hordes. God’s grace shall be gone. His 
curse shall be upon all who do not fear Him, and unhappy mankind 
shall curse God and consider it still possible to reclaim itself. Agony 
shall speak in the eye of man, anguish shall strangle them, and the 
usurping power shall still speak great words to the Almighty, there¬ 
by thinking to allay the fear and the hate of the misled multitudes. 
The real situation shall be unspeakable and unutterable, easier to be 
imagined than to be pictured, and the Bible-student shall do well to 
heed the signs of the times. 

We beheld, Anti-Christ coming like his Father satan, with seven 
and also with the ever present “ten.” The “ten” attributes of Anti- 
Christ are his identification marks, which are easily traced by the 
great type, Antiochus Epiphanus, to whom Christ calls our attention 
in Mathew 24:15. These ten marks are: 

(1) . Exalting and magnifying himself above God, Dan 11 :36. 

(2) . A covenant breaker, Dan 11 :23. 

(3) Pollute the church, Dan 11:31. 

(4) . Persecute the true children of God, Dan 11 :31. 

(5) . Corrupt God’s people by flatteries, Dan 11 :32. 

(6) . Pie supreme ruler for a period, Dan 11 :42, 43. 

(7) . He comes out of the plain people, Democracv, Dan 11:21. 

(8) . He becomes chief ruler by corruptness, might and flat¬ 
teries, Dan 11 :2 2. 

(9) . He shall rule 1260 days, or 42 months, or 3 and one-half 
years, Dan 12:11, and Rev 13:5, and Dan 7:25. 

(10) . He shall be uprooted by the Almighty, Rev 19:20 and 
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN 

Persecution. 

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Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and 
shall kill you; and' ye shall be hated of all nations for 
my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and 
shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 
Math 24:9, 10. 

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for 
the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the 
land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge 
of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing> 
and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, 
and blood toucheth blood. Hosea 4:1, 2. 

And he shall speak great words against the Most 
High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, 
and think to change times and laws; and they shall be 
given into his hand until a time and times and the divid¬ 
ing of time. Dan 7:25. 

And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall 
pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away 
the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination 
that maketh desolate. Dan 11:31. 

And it zvas given unto him to make war with the 
saints, and to overcome them; and power was given him 
over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Rev 13:7. 

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after 
their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling 
words, having men's persons in admiration because of 
advantage. Jude :i6. 

Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have 
heard that anti-christ shall come, even now are there 
many anti-christs; whereby we know that it is the last 
time. They went out from us; for if they had been of 
us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but 
they went out, that they might be made manifest that 
they were not all of us. 1 John 2:18, 19. 


We have illustrated the darkness of secretism. We beheld this 
“darkness” and saw that it overwhelmed Christianity so fully and 
completely that it might be considered a “miracle” when a straying 
beam of light penetrated the awful obscurity. It seemed to us, 
darkness only lacked a “crown” to be considered the king of the 
earth. This strange crown, as it appeared to us, was in the making 
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of time longingly casting bulging eyes upon the crown representing 
the power of the world and of the church. 

\\ hen this king sways his iron scepter over Christianity, the 
trembling glimmer of light illuminating the doom brewing atmos¬ 
phere will be caught and extinguished at the command of the won¬ 
derful king and conquerer who is the principal sworn enemy of light, 
be it ever so weak and faltering. 

Evidently, when the parent of darkness, Free Masonry, holds 
entire, so-called Christianity, in its swarthy paws, having acquired 
the friendship of erstwhile enemies; no power, or light, from heaven 
or from the earth will be allowed to sit next, or above nor below the 
supreme ruler of the universe, but impossible and impractical rules, 
regulations and measures shall be put in force to banish all what 
apparently or indeed opposes the will of the king. 

Free Masonry and the Catholic Church, the twins of darkness, 
soon cleverly re-united, shall brood out the longingly desired “super¬ 
man," and impart their power in his unclean gripping hands. 

The great war, mother of war, instrument of instability, pro¬ 
ducer of chaos, father of ruin, mother of corruptness, child of hell, 
is the pang of the drunken world in travail bringing forth the son 
of darkness, the son of secretism, the man of sin, the lawless one, 
who shall be considered the greatest of man, being the product of a 
lawless civilization and a Christless Christianity, representing the 
sleeping church and the pious world. The great LIAR shall appear 
in a cloak of sweetness, flowing and glowing oratory is his bed, 
clever schemes his table, and bold acts his easychair. Grand shall 
be his appearance, wonderful his sight, unconquerable his power, 
strange his grasp upon the world and upon the church, and when 
enthroned all restraint shall be shaken off, and an absolute obedience 
shall he ask of the living and of the dead in his domain. 

He is the truest imitator of the Syrian king, Antiochus Epip- 
hanus who governed Jerusalem for a period of three years and a 
half. This king entered Jerusalem through fraud and trickery, and 
corrupted the opposition with bribes notwithstanding his covenant 
with the Jews not to enter their city. Flavius Josephus, the Jewish 
historian points out that when in Jerusalem he placed his image in 
God’s temple, commanding the Jews to reverence it as their God, at 
the same time prohibiting them to exalt Jehovah, annuling His laws 
polluting and profaning God’s Holy sanctuary and altar, establishing 
an universal worship of which he proclaimed himself God. No 
doubt but Jesus calls our attention to this man when in Mathew 
24:15 He says: “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of 
desolation, etc” which we can observe in preparation in the Christian 
world, which has lost all of the Christ. This Syrian king murdered 
the children of God who would not forsake Jehovah the God of their 
fathers, and this is indeed what the coming Christian heathen king 
undoubtedly will repeat, for the world must be made safe for dem¬ 
ocracy and bolsheviki, (man-rule) and all semblance of God and 





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light must be banished from the kingdom of secret obscurity. The 
church as a whole shall happily glory in the deeds of persecution, 
and while singing, “Onward Christian soldiers’’ shall deliver those 
of her sons who refuse to be shackled with a golden chain to the 
image of the beast. These shall be dark and gloomy days for the 
children of God. but they have this comfort that the oppression is 
but for a moment, a small period of time, a sigh of but three years 
and a half. Dark days indeed, the brother shall deliver the brother, 
the father the son, and the son the father, and hell shall rejoice 
thinking to have at last succeeded in gaining the long desired goal. 

Both, the prophet Daniel, and John the Patmos Seer speak of 
“overcoming the saints of the most high places.” 

Revelation 12:4 speaking of the “dragon” (satan) says: “and 
his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven; and did cast them 
to the earth.” The apostle Jude speaking of stars (wandering 
stars) seems to refer to the so-called “ministers of the gospel,” 
which harmonizes with Revelation 1 :20 and seems to infer that by 
the “stars” are meant the saints of the high places. Revelation 12:4 
divides these stars in two, one part staying in heaven, and one part 
falling to the earth, simply implying that these “ministers of the 
gospel,” the fallen ones, are the saints of the most high places who 
satan is able to overcome, or in other words who he makes his 
partners in his kingdom of darkness. These are yet “stars” (coming 
in the name of Jesus) but their works and words are those of the 
prince of darkness to whom St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians 
chapter 6:12 refers as “spiritual wickedness in high places.” 

Revelation 13:7 says: that the beast, (the political state under 
the direction of the second beast; Anti-Christ;) made “war” with 
the saints, “overcoming” them and verse 15 adds “to be killed,” 
which is not said in Daniel 7 :21, 25, where overcoming and killing is 
implied in the words: “and prevailed against them,” which is also 
expressed in Revelation 13-17, and in Daniel 3:6, 20. 

Overcoming and killing may be applied in two different ways. 
As in the case of Revelation 12:4 where satan draws a third of the 
stars (so-called ministers of the gospel) from heaven (high places) 
and makes them enemies of the cross of the Christ, killing them 
spiritually, and it may mean, killing bodily, as is attempted in Daniel 
3:6 and verse 20 where the three young men were cast into the 
midst of the burning fiery furnace. 

But it seems to me, this coming usurping great “man-power” 
shall not be satisfied with merely overcoming his enemies, morally 
but shall relentlessly persecute the true “stars” of the high places, 
killing and murdering them with the “saints” the plain people of 
God. This must be accomplished to fill the measure of unrighteous¬ 
ness up to its very brim, so that the Christian world, the beautiful 
“modern world” will not possess the least semblance of excuse, but 
has prepared itself for the vehement indignation and Holy wrath of 
the Most High Judge of the nations of the world. 






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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 

The Yellow Danger. 


Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this 
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their 
fear, nor be afraid. Isaiah 8:12. 

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven; behold; it 
shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of 
my curse, to judgment. For it is the day of the Lord’s 
vengeance and the year of recompcnces for the contro¬ 
versy of Zion. Isaiah 34:5, 8. 

How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for 
war! Fear, and the pit, and the snare shall be upon 
thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord. Jeremiah 
4S:i4, 43 • 

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of 
clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread 
upon the mountains; a great people and strong; there 
hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more 
after it, even to the years of many generations. Joel 2:2. 

Ye u’ho turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off 
righteousness in the earth. They hate him that rebuketh 
in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 
Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord; to zvhat 
end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and 
not light. Amos 5:7, 10, 18. 

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the 
seat of violence to come near; That drink wine in bowls, 
and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but 
they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Amos 

6:3, 6. 

And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, 
as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, 
and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen 
may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O God, 
before their eyes. And I will call for a sword against 
him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God; 
every man’s sword shall be against his brother. Ezekiel 
38:16, 21. 

And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name 
that sat on him zvas Death, and Hell followed with him. 
And pozver was given unto them over the fourth part 
of the earth to kill zvith the szvord, and with hunger, and 
with death, and with the beasts of the earth. Rev 6:8. 




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And when the thousand years are expired, Satan 
shall be loosed out of his prison , And sh'all go out to de¬ 
ceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the 
earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them to battle; the 
number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they 
went up on the breath of the earth, and compassed the 
camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire 
came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 

Rev 20:7, 8, 9 . 

When all of so-called Christianity has fully discarded God and 
His Christ, seeking salvation in its own wicked and sinister corrupt¬ 
ness, honoring puny man, setting one mere man upon the throne of 
God; then is it reasonably sure that he who dares to refuse to bring 
homage to the self anointed king, shall be wiped out from among the 
children of man, considered unfit to dwell in the midst of man- 
edifiers, living in the gracious kingdom of man. Christian schools, 
Churches and all places wheresoever glory is bestowed upon God in 
heaven shall be closed to be made sanctuaries where Humanism is 
worshipped. 

The regime of Anti-Christ lasting three years and a half, ac¬ 
cording to Scripture, is a regime of blasphemy, boasting, wonderful 
achievements and manifold calamities. Strange unhuman things 
shall be accomplished. What erstwhile was impossible will be 
deemed easv of achievement. Man, having no higher ambition than 
the earth, shall realize that heaven has dawned at last, or that it is 
within the power of man to establish the kingdom of peace and bliss, 
while at the same time ugly looking dangers are lurking as so many 
weird specters at every turn of the road, shocking and afTightening 
the populace. 

Then when democracy has conceived, and secretism has brought 
forth the expected savior of the world; and all of Godless Chris¬ 
tianity, in the name of the “carpenter of Nazareth'’ swells up in 
pride, thinking to dwell secure, then, yea then shall God laugh at 
them, and deride them, and their plagues shall be many and un¬ 
bearable but these shall dwindle to insignificance by the appearance of 
the uncontrollable hordes of heathens swarming unexpectedly over 
their so dearly cultivated kingdom of man. This is the so many 
times spoken of, and now lurking “Yellow Danger.” 

When the “anti-christian” spirit has conquered Christianity, and 
the “super-man" is the generally recognized king, then is the time 
ripe that God’s Spirit shall be taken away, as it is written in 2 
Thessalonians 2, and the period shall be inaugurated in which God 
shall set loose satan, as is written in Revelation 20:7, 8 and 9 and in 
Ezekiel 38 and 39, and other places. 

These multitudes which shall “as a cloud cover the land” con¬ 
stitute the so much feared “Yellow Danger.” According to Revela¬ 
tion 20:9 they shall “compass the camp of the saints about.” Many 
now read this passage as referring to the Jews at Jerusalem. It is 
well. But does it seem reasonable that God should save all these 






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millions of heathens to bring them up against such an insignificant 
small place . J Is the “camp of the saints'’ not as well at London, and 
at Amsterdam, and at Paris, and at New York, and at Chicago, and 
maybe at Jerusalem? Are not all of the so-called Christian countries 
the “camp of the saints," although the saints are no more the saints 
of the true God? Is it not plainly explained and revealed in Scrip¬ 
ture that God shall visit the sins of His people as he visited the sins 
of apostate Israel? Does not Israel’s history reveal the history of 
apostate Christianity? Do we not remember that the Patmos’ Seer 
calls the minister of the churches angel ? and does not he plainly 
write that Jesus shall spew the last named minister, the minister of 
Laodecea out of his mouth? And are not the churches with their 
commercialistic pastors the church of Laodecea? Is it not plain that 
the Apostle Jude calls the fallen ministers stars, even tho they be 
‘‘wandering stars?" Does not St. John state that they “went out 
from us?" Enough! These multitudes of unconverted, semi- 
civilized heathens, who were expecting to receive the glad tidings 
from the Christian peoples, but who received instead the sword, whis¬ 
key, opium, and the reeking curses of the white races, I repeat, it is 
plain, these wrathful and warlike multitudes shall be the rod of iron 
in the hands of a revengeful God, Who shall utterly uproot them, 
making them a prey for the hordes of these hungry wolves who 
shall overrun their unfenced cities, dishonoring their wives, murder 
their babes, and if possible destroy them altogether, satan thinking 
in this way to uproot Christianity, Christ and the Almighty. 

And who is able to describe the horridness of this inhuman 
spectacle? Who can narrate the closing history of the human race? 
Who can color the madness of unloosed satan apprehending his “short 
time" fully recognizing his utter failure with apostate Christianity, 
which he won, and yet failed to conquer, trying to drown the de¬ 
generates in a monstrous wave of a human tide overleaping shores 
and erstwhile established boundaries ? Shall man paint the streams 
of human blood, the anguish, the hatred, the gloom of the vanquished, 
and the doom of the vanquishing? Shall mere man portray the 
agony of the quavering masses wrestling with despair, death and 
hell ? I do not believe any man shall ever be able to depict the clos¬ 
ing days of the universe which God once had created to His honor, 
but which failed to reach its appointed destination, because puny 
man sought to divert God's purpose, altho he added thereby to the 
greater glorification of the Creator unintentionally and contrary to 
his wishes. No. It is impossible. Man's wonderful understanding 
combined with his vivid imagination shall fail to record the apparent 
triumph of the “Yellow Races,” which very triumph is the signal 
of their total destruction. 

Naturally the attentive reader will inquire, but who are these 
Yellow Races, these uncontrollable forces which shall overrun and 
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Let us see. The book of Genesis, chapter 10:2 calls the sons of 
Japheth, the first son of Noah, by their respective names. Japheth's 
second son is Magog, and from him are descended the Tartars, or 
the inhabitants of modern Russia, and it is evident, the Mongolians, 
the Japanese and the Chinese, are to be traced to this very Magog. 
Japheth’s sixth son is Meshech, and he is the progenitor of the 
Moscovites, or old Russia. 

The Jews are the descendants of Shem, the second son of 
Japheth. I am convinced that the Jews, the Russians and the Mon¬ 
golians are about the only people whose lines can be traced to the 
family saved by God from the general deluge, while the so-called 
white races are so thoroughly intermarried and completely mixed 
together that none of them, nor they altogether can be accurately 
traced to either one of the three sons of Noah. 

Undoubtly God means something with such an arrangement. 
The Jews as a nation are non-existent, but as individuals are saved 
to be witnesses to the truthfulness of God. God, in a measure, has 
settled with the Jewish nation and has elected to displace them with 
a multitude of heathen nations, transforming them into his chosen 
people. This is what we properly call “Christianity'’ or, “the Spiritual 
Jews.” Christianity is the true child of Jewery, translating and 
reflecting in it the brilliant lustre and glorious splendor of old carnal 
Israel. Now, it is Christianity, the spiritual Jews upon which the end 
of the ages heavily rest. The carnal Jews crusified their Messiah, 
deeming Him unworthy to live. In this act they disposed of God, 
and God discarded them. Paul speaking about this act of God, says 
to the spiritual Jews, “Do not consider yourself worthier than them, 
or, if God cut off the old branch. He shall do the same to the newly 
ingrafted branch if this branch refuses to stay upon the root.” And 
now, what did this newly ingrafted branch do? Did it cling unto 
the root? Did it not rather wander farther away than old Israel, 
the old branch ever did? Did Christianity not crusify the Righteous 
One anew, when it elected to proclaim the great man-murderer 
righteous? How was it possible that apostate Christianity could fall 
so low as to declare the grafting ,God-denying, devil-glorying war 
righteous? Did not God’s people again choose a murderer “Bar- 
abbas,” nailing Jesus “the Savior” upon the bloody cross? It seems 
clear to me this has happened. Shall not now God cut off this un¬ 
faithful branch as well as He has cut off the old and special beloved 
branch ? Most assuredly ! 

God in His wonderful unsearchable wisdom prepared in due 
season the Roman Empire to root out Israel from among the peoples 
of the earth, and now He has also prepared an unconquerable enemy 
in the Yellow Races to uproot entire Godless selfseeking Christianity, 
as is very evident and plainly depicted in chapters 38 and 39 of 
Ezekiel and Revelations 20:7, 8 and 9. 

The great world war, fought for agrandizement, weakened in¬ 
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or the white races, in a state of dissolution, which came very near of 
ruining the conqueror as well as the conquered. Japan, the eye of 
the yellow race, shrewdly abstained from meddling in it more than 
absolute necessary to keep the English friendly, at the same time 
using their arms for its own benefit, eating the heart out of China, 
her big brother, slave and needed friend. Japan and China both 
became quite capable in the handling of weapons of warfare, in 
which they from now on will seek their glory. 

The so long dormant Russian Empire, smashed and splintered 
again and again by the German Colossus, learned in its defeat how 
to conquer, and is to-day more than a formidable adversary, and 
more than a match for the womanly nations headed by egoistic Eng¬ 
land. What hinders Trotsky to smash the combined strength of the 
each other hating French and English nations, who were foolish 
enough to break down the iron barrier between them and Russia? 
Why did they plunder the German Empire, which alone could check 
these hordes of half civilized heathens? What does Russia care for 
their crazy quilt, the boneless League of Nations? Have not the 
three big brothers, the Russians, the Japanese and the Chinese an 
immensely stronger League of Nations? When they feel themselves 
strong enough shall they pay heed to English bluff? Shall they fear 
the Yankee thunder? Shall not their millions upon millions deride 
the few millions of their half witted foes, who in cold blood mur¬ 
dered each other for the sake of a few paltry dollars? Shall tjiese 
uncountable hordes care whether the white races believed the lie, the 
slogan of their murderers, their own great and wise leaders, “make 
the world safe for democracy,” democracy which was inaugurated, 
and yet does not exist ? 

Yes, indeed, although Gog, the Chief Prince, was pulled back 
with hooks, as is said in Ezekiel 38:3, 4. Yes, although Magog’s 
chief Prince, the Czar, is gone, and Magog itself thrown down in 
defeat, yet he shall come forth with the other races, his brethren, 
from the “sides of the earth, from the “North" and with an over¬ 
whelming storm take possession of the “unwalled villages" and com¬ 
pletely destroy the pride and the glory and the joy, and the beauty, 
and the manifold gods of the Godless white races, smothering them 
and their great exalted wise ones in their own contemptable gore. 
For this purpose God has saved the so-called Yellow Races, they 
being in God’s hand the scourge wherewith He shall visit the sin of 
God denying of the White races. 

When the Romans had destroyed Israel, God awoke an avenger 
who in due season punished the Roman Empire. History repeats 
itself. For destroying the white races God shall punish the des¬ 
troyer the Yellow Races and the one that inflicts this punishment 
shall be God Himself. 

The next chapter, “The Stone Cut Out Without Hands" is to 
bring out a few thoughts founded upon the very reliable Word of 
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 

The Stone Cut Out Without Hands. 


Thou sawest till a stone zvas cut out without hands> 
which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron 
and clay and brake them to pieces,—and the wind carried 
them away, that no place was found for them; and the 
stone that smote the image became a great mountain, 
and filled the whole earth. Dan 2:34, 35. 

Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the 
valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will 1 sit to judge all 
the heathen round about. Joel 3:12. 

And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of 
thee; so will I destroy thy cities. And I will execute 
vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as 
they have not heard. Micah 5 :I 4> J 5- 

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; 
the gates of thy land shall be set wdde open unto thine 
enemies; the fire shall devour thy bars. Nahum 3:13. 

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen; 
as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy reward 
shall return upon thine own head. Obadiah 13. 

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and 
his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself 
to worship, to the moles and to the bats. Isaiah 2:20. 

Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people 
for their good. Jeremiah 14:11. 

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, 
and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly 
burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged 
her. Revelation 18:8. 

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great 
voices in heaven, saying. The kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and 
he shall reign for ever and ever. Revelation 11:15. 

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on 
it, from whose face the earth tied away; and there was 
found no place for them. Rev 20:11. 

When the civilized modern world, the wonderful kingdom of 
MAN, becomes the laughing stock, the derision, the scorn of the 
powerful yellow races, the semi-christian barbarians, who perplex 
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roving their riches; then the ‘‘stone cut out without hands” shall 
smite the raving, wrangling, Godless and lawless mass of humanity, 
and the stone itself shall become a mountain filling the earth, as is 
written in Daniel 2:34. 

According to the verse following, this very stone is a “king¬ 
dom. a kingdom set up by the God of heaven. Take notice! Not 
by mere man with miserable men seeking pious schemes. This king¬ 
dom of God shall never be destroyed, and it shall be so unconquerable 
strong that it shall be able to break in pieces the pious Godless king¬ 
doms of man, consisting of the federation of the Christian peoples 
and the federation of the heathen peoples. These very kingdoms, 
headed by the gracious modern world are called by Daniel the king¬ 
doms of mud of iron, of brass, of silver and of gold, the very sub¬ 
stances king Nebuchadnezzar beheld in his mighty political image. 

This story plainly illustrates that the God from heaven mocks 
the boasted endeavors of the political world to set upon the throne 
of the world a king of peace after their own desires, a king which 
they boast shall rule everlastingly. God mocks and laughs and 
derides their whole political scheme, and with one mighty stroke of 
His almighty right hand swipes them and their opponents from the 
earth, and sets up his own heavenly kingdom, electing himself King 
of Kings and Lord of Lords. The overpowering of the kingdoms 
of the earth by the stone cut out without hands pictures the utter 
ruin of the world viewed from a political standpoint. 

The never to be recorded war between the white and the yellow 
races, or the struggle for existence of the white races against the 
murderous attempt of the yellow races, is the conflict of the peoples 
as described in Ezekiel 38 and 39 and in Revelation 19:7, 8, 9. 

This war necessary to subdue the Yellow Races who shall have 
conquered the weak, womanly, self-ruined white races, is depicted 
in Revelation 19 of which verse eleven states that the conqueror of 
the earth was seated upon a white horse which headed a great 
heavenly host of warriors sitting upon white horses. These armies 
do conquer the fighting armies headed by the beast, slaying the 
generals with their battle horses and their armies, throwing the 
beast, (Political State) and the False Prophet, (Anti-Christ) alive 
into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. This, of course, depicts 
the same story seen from the battlefield. 

In Revelation 20 we read of a White Throne and from the face 
of Him who sat upon it fled the earth and the heavens. Further¬ 
more we have a glimpse of the resurrection of all the dead, all 
standing before this great white throne, each receiving his own 
merited reward, the one everlasting bliss, the other everlasting doom. 
Heaven and earth having passed away, there is no more need for 
death and hell, and both of them are also cast into the lake of fire. 
This lake of fire, is explained as representing the “second death.'’ 








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The second death consists in the undescribable position of missing 
for ever the mercy and the love of God. Jesus himself plainly 
states that whosoever is disobedient to the Son shall not see life, but 
shall see everlasting death, meaning this very second death, the 
death in the lake of fire, into which are plunged the beast, (Politics) 
the False Prophet, (Anti-Christ), Death, (Physical death), and hell, 
(the grave.) This picture unfolds God judging the two leagues of 
nations, or the white and yellow races, and more particular the heads 
of the opposition. The Apostle Peter in his second letter, chapter 
three, verses 10 to and including 13, depicts the very identical 
judgment bv God of the world which is seen here with the eyes of 
FAITH. 

When Christ shall ‘appear in the heavens upon the clouds ex¬ 
tremely distressing unexpectedly, yea, as a “snare” upon the world, 
and as a “thief” in the night upon the church, then both of them 
shall wonder and look upon Him Whom they have denied, derided, 
scorned and discarded. They shall then stare and gaze at Him upon 
His white horse, they shall shudder, wail and howl, weep and 
lament. The uplifted sword shall drop out of the clinched fist of the 
mad warrior. The murderous canon shall cease its wicked roaring, 
and become as silent as a tomb. The hurled bomb shall miss its 
destination. The gushing wound shall flow no more. The broken 
eye shall lift its gaze on high. The horse shall stand still. The 
commanding officer shall forget to command. The mischievious 
submarine shall float harmless. The airship shall halt. The farmer 
shall forget to plow, the sower shall stop in the midst of the field. 
The carpenter, the smith, the toiler, they all shall drop their tools, 
and speechless and dumfounded they shall stare into the heavens 
looking to Christ with His white robed armies riding upon white 
horses. The archangel shall blow upon his trumpet, and upon that 
sign the dead, the dying and the living shall arrange themselves be¬ 
fore the Great White Throne, dividing themselves into two great 
parties, one on the right and one on the left hand of the Glorious 
Judge, the Old One of days, who shall set Himself to give a right¬ 
eous judgment. The earth and the heaven shall pass away. Time 
shall be no more. One, one word from the mighty Judge, and on 
one side shall be heard lamenting, wailing and weeping and gnash¬ 
ing of teeth, cursing and blashpheming, while on the other side the 
never ending Hallelujahs shall be heard fleeting from the lips of 
those who did not shame the Christ while in the flesh. These shall 
receive the golden harps, the silver trumpets, the beautiful crown, 
the pearless white stone, and everlastingly they shall glorify the 
Christ who bought them with His blood upon the wicked cross, and 
their love shall never wander, shall never cease, for they shall be 
everlastingly in the presence of the slaughtered Lamb with the seven 
horns. 

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The Stone. 

Upon a glorious mountain side, 

W rapped 'round with soft and heavenly light, 

I stood and watched the heavens glow, 

While earth in darkness lay below. 

Out of the dark and gloomy night 
Reverberated on all side 
A chaos of noises shrill and loud, 

Above which roared the cyclone cloud. 

The hailstones, each one a talent, 

Fell on the people evil bent, 

Who screamed of pain, but angry swore 
Cursing the heavens for their sore. 

The Thunder pealed. The lightning flashed. 

The cyclone swirled and hurled and lashed 
The waters of the mighty streams, 

Whose billows plowed through rock and beams. 

I heard the Caesars pray and groan; 

The mighty kings plead from their throne. 

But, grace and love were passed away. 

Hatred alone, it ruled the day. 

I heard the most unearthly cry 
Appealing, smoth'ring in the sky, 

The caesars, peoples, great, once free; 
Lamented in their agony. 

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The swollen billows with a roar 
Wallowed in kings and rich men's gore, 
Sweeping their crowns in miry dirt. 

Crushing the mountains of the earth. 

The mighty roar, the horrid crash. 

Of smashing mountain peaks so rash. 

Send tremors through the eternal rock, 

Splitting the earth with quake and shock. 

And, at this moment, in the dark, 

At the northern pole broke forth a spark, 

A beam of light, which as a star 
Illuminated near and far. 





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This light revealed me through the cloud 
Three horses, prancing round about. 

The one was red, another black, 

The third one pale, but none were slack. 

The star which in the heaven shone, 

Had settled on a new made throne, 

It led the horses forth with glee 
To catch these horses, horses three. 

The mountains, as was said before, 

Were broken down, and were no more. 

A single one alone stood fast, 

The one on which God’s glory rest. 

The star which at the horses flew, 

Aspied at last this mountain, too, 

Which it, as ruler, strong, supreme, 
Sought to acclaim as its regime. 

But, at this moment, I perceived 
A lonely stone, ages relieved. 

It crushed the star, its forces, throne. 
They lay at nought before this STONE. 











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CHAPTER NINETEEN 

The New Jerusalem. 


In my Fathers house are many mansions. If it were 
not so, I would have told you. 1 go to prepare a place 
for you. John 14:2. 


And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To 
day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23:43. 


And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; 
and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Luke 1:33. 

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and 
a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should 
serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
shall not be destroyed. Dan 7:14. 

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming 
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride 
adorned for her husband. And 1 saw no temple therein; 
for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple 
of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of 
the moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten 
it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations 
of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it; and 
the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into 
it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day; 
for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring 
the glory and honor of the nations into it. And there 
shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, 
neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a 
lie; but they which are written in the Lambs book of 
life. Rev 21 : 2 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 . 


I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you 
these things in the churches. I am the root arid the off¬ 
spring of David, and the bright and morning star. He 
which testificth these things saith, Surely I come quickly, 
Amen. Even so, come, I^ord Jesus. Rev 22:16, 20. 


In preceding chapters we beheld the world in a vision of a 
battlefield. On one side were arranged the so-called Christian nations 
beguiled by THE LIE, on the other side were the semi-heathen 
races whom'God used as a tremendous weapon to avenge Himself. 







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We beheld the White races struggling. We saw them trampled 
under foot. We perceived them in their agony, in their gloom, in 
their despair, in their blood, cursing the Almighty and raving 
against Him. 

Unexpectedly another spectacle passed before our wondering 
eyes. The heavens opened, and a white horse carrying the King of 
Kings, the Lord of Lords appeared leading a host of brilliant 
warriors seated upon white horses overpowering the struggling 
opposing armies, capturing the beast, (Anti-Christ) leader of the 
Christian nations; and the dragon (satan) leader of the boasting, 
ravishing uncontrollable hordes of the mixed races of heathens and 
Christians, Yellow, Black and White. We saw the heads of these 
mighty armies huddled together and hurled in the lake of brimstone 
and fire and sulphur, their armies hopelessly shattered and rooted 
and plunged into everlasting damnation. None of them were spared, 
none whose name was not found in the Book of Life. 

Thus was the end of the world, the beautiful Modern World, 
the Modern World so extremely brilliant, so prosperous, so pro¬ 
gressive, where culture ruled supreme, and where philosophy was 
seated upon the throne of God served by the monsters of Mammon 
and Bolsheviki. As formerly great Babylon perished, so perished 
Modern Babylon, but her devastation was more terrible, was more 
complete. 

Thus perished the great harlot with her miserable daughters. 
How grand, how glorious, how magnificent was her union with the 
Modern World! Was not she in reality the cjueen, the queen from 
heaven? How miserable was her end! According to her misrep¬ 
resentations she was dealt with. What a defeat, what a gloom, what 
an unpaintable picture, what a colossal failure! 

Thus was the end of man who deemed himself capable to work 
out his own salvation, and thus were his plans uprooted, his fool¬ 
hardiness shown, and laborous work of six thousand years destroyed, 
his glorious place of abode purified by fire, and mankind self- 
delivered into an unquenchable fire void of Hope, Faith and Love. 
Man had used the good and perfect gifts of God to his own vain 
glory, attempting by their power to lift himself above God, His Cre¬ 
ator. The wisdom, power, life, intellect, knowledge, understanding, 
reason, given to man to glorify God, proved in the dreadful hour to 
be so many sports upon the ladder leading to his own self willed and 
self worked destruction. O foolish mankind. No, no grace for the 
Modern World, not in its doom-hour any more than throughout its 
entire brilliant carrier. No, no grace for the worldly church, which 
in her last stage of falling away boasted and bragged, brooded and 
glorified so extremely in the calamitious lie of Common Grace. And 
yet and yet there was GRACE. The doomhour of the unconverted 
world and degenerated church was the glorious moment of the 
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virgin. Grace, yea Grace alone could create out of ugliness such a 
lovely and perfect being, glory, yea glory to God. 

What an incomprehensible scene! What an entirely different 
view A moment ago an all consuming fire, and now the glory of 
the heavens upon the new born earth. How magnificent! How 
glorious! The picture is John’s, the language that of the Patmos 
Seer. He saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down from God 
out of heaven. Out of heaven, how illustrious, how bright! No 
not from the earth. No not by the power of man, but by the might 
of the Almighty was this beautiful city forever established upon the 
purified earth, never more to be defiled with the works of mere man. 

The wages of sin is death, and death culminates in everlasting 
unquenchable fire. Did the upheaping of capital carry its own pun¬ 
ishment and destruction, the upheaping of sin, shared the same lot. 
Did God punish the upheaping of sin in the first world with a deluge 
which purified the earth with water and made it a fit place for man¬ 
kind to dwell in and glorify his Creator, God punished the upheaping 
of sin in the second world also now not by water, but by fire, pre¬ 
paring it thereby for an abode of the elect and purified ones whose 
garments were washed in the blood of the Lamb. Yea, they are the 
human race, mankind, the kernel, the seed of the living God. They, 
and they alone shall live in the city which John saw descending out 
of heaven, the city of God, The New Jerusalem. 

Shall we depict that city? Can mere human mind grasp the 
crown of wonder of Almighty God? Is there a more abler and 
nobler pen than the one used by John? Can a man improve upon 
what is written by the Spirit of God as He has revealed unto us in 
the closing chapters of God's Own Holy Word? Would it not be 
folly to attempt to describe the glory of that city? What God wrote 
there will suffice, for it is enough for us to behold an inkling of the 
purity, holiness and Godliness of that city. Any one anxious to 
meditate upon the beauty of that city, we advise to read Revelation 
21 and 22. 

That is the city of our God Who created it for them who keep 
themselves unspotted in the world. Those and no one else shall 
dwell there, those who took the cross of the Christ and carried it 
behind Him upon the ignoble pathway of Via Dolorosa. It is a 
graceful abode and dwelling place for them who learned to deny 
themselves in order that their Redeemer be glorified. Yes. in that 
city live the meek, the pure, the lowly, the downtrodden, the poor, 
the broken hearted, the ugly, the despised, the discarded, the hated, 
but lo how they are changed, they are now the rulers, the judges, the 
glorified, the blessed, the jubilant, the kings and queens- of the new 
created and purified earth, they are crowned and clothed in pure 
white raiment, shouting the glory of the slaughtered Lamb on whose 
feet they lav their crowns of pure gold. They shall walk upon the 
golden streets of that incomprehensible city, entering by the gates 
of magnificent pearls, walking in the light of God Himself, Who 






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wrote their names in His book of life before the foundation of the 
earth, each carrying a white stone engraved with a name. They 
constitute an uncountable multitude in the city of God where the 
bridegroom meets his beloved and purified bride. 

The Modern World, with all its pomp and shining lustre, awe 
and fear, bragging and boasting, thrones and slavery, riches and 
poverty, blessings and cursings, murders and rapine, God denying 
and man exalting, is a thing of the past. Nowhere to be found. 
Never more to be remembered. Nothing of it remains, although 
to-day it stands yet forth as an ill looking creature, as a fearful 
spector in its light varnish of culture and philosophy, which are 
accounted for in and added together figure up to the Number of 
Man (666) Six Hundred Three Score and Six. No Free Masonry 
nor Ku Klux Klan, how much pretending with their evil eye full of 
hatred counts one farthing here. All of them, and many more are 
weighed and found to be as the handwriting upon the wall of old 
Babylon, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN, and in one night 
Modern Babylon shall fall as Old Babylon fell before. 

Here is wisdom. Let us count the number, and after having 
found it wanting, let us run to the cross of the Christ who came to 
add to that number so that the number of man may correspond with 
the number of Christ. God is merciful. No, not to the God deniers. 
No, not to that awful red whore. No, not to the righteous pharasee. 
No, not to the proud, to the despisers, to the foolish virgins without 
oil, but to the humble, to the meek, to the poor miserable sinners, 
who He will make sons and heirs of the New Jerusalem, the city of 
God, if they come to the Christ to be healed by Him. 

Let us glorify him in this life as long as the opportunity is with 
us! Let us wait for His coming. Let us look for His coming, for 
He cometh soon! Let us wait for Him, and say: Christ Jesus, 
Come, Come quickly. Amen. 

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